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Vladimir Borovikovsky

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The artist subtly conveys the inner world of the people he portrays. In a chamber, sentimental portrait with limited emotional expression, the master can convey the diversity of innermost feelings and experiences of the models portrayed.  For the canvas "Catherine II for a walk in the
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In the 1810s Borovikovsky attracted a strong, energetic personality, he focuses on the citizenship, nobility, dignity of the portrayed. The appearance of his models becomes more restrained, the landscape background is replaced by a depiction of the interior.
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and the iconostasis of the Church of Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg. He gave painting lessons to the then aspiring artist
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In his later years, Borovikovsky returned to religious painting, including several icons for the ongoing construction of the
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His work is dominated by chamber portraits. In female images, Borovikovsky embodies the ideal of beauty of his era.
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After September 1788 Borovikovsky lived in Saint Petersburg where he changed his surname from the Cossack
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Tsarskoselsky park (1794), submitted to the Academy of Arts, Borovikovsky was appointed an academician.
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In the late 1790s, Borovikovsky gains fame as a famous portrait painter. He painted with his left hand.
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Borovikovsky never taught in the Imperial Academy of Art but pupils lived in his home. Among them were
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April 6] 1825) was a Russian artist of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He served at the court of
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and Bugaevsky-Blagodarny (who painted the only survived portrait of Vladimir Borovikovsky).
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Borovikovsky lived in Mirgorod until 1788, where he painted icons and portraits in the
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On April 6, 1825 he died suddenly of a heart attack and was interred in the
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The work of Borovikovsky is a fusion of classicist and sentimental styles.
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Three centuries of Russian painting. Kitezh Art Publishers, 1994. P. 404.
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and devoted his life to art — mostly icon painting for local churches.
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Portrait of Princess A. G. Gagarina and Princess V. G. Gagarina
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Borovikovsky VL Russian and Ukrainian painter, portraitist.
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The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow: Russian and Soviet Painting
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Portrait of A. G. and A. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky (1814)
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of the Smolensky Cemetery church and some icons for
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People from the Russian Empire of Ukrainian descent
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Vol. 2. pp. 21–22. 63: 1146:Portrait painters from the Russian Empire 202:origin. His father, Luka Borovik, was an 554:God the Father contemplating dead Christ 425: 303: 216: 1106:Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts 938:. Parkstone International. p. 49. 512:Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins 280:St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts 1098: 887:Sarabianov, Andrei D. (31 July 2024). 833:Sarabianov, Andrei D. (31 July 2024). 697:Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia 468: 1141:Male painters from the Russian Empire 348:Portrait of Paul I, Emperor of Russia 243:during her travel to newly conquered 986:Ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡ russkoĭ zhivopisi 931: 754:Portrait of Ye. A. Arkharova (1820) 112:St. Petersburg, Russian Empire 13: 639:Portrait of Maria Lopukhina (1797) 282:, so he took private lessons from 270:to the more aristocratic-sounding 186:Vladimir Borovikovsky was born in 14: 1182: 1156:People from the Cossack Hetmanate 1063: 651:Portrait of F. A. 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Mirgorod
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Imperial Academy of Arts
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Virgin Mary
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Catherine II
Kremenchuk
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