Vladimir Borovikovsky

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Vladimir Borovikovsky
Владимир Боровиковский
Mirgorod, Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire
DiedApril 18 [O.S. April 6] 1825 (aged 67)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1795)[1]
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts[1]
Known forPainting
MovementOrientalist

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky[a] (August 4 [O.S. July 24] 1757 – April 18 [O.S. April 6] 1825) was a Russian artist of Ukrainian Cossack origin.[2] He served at the court of Catherine the Great and dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century.

Biography

Vladimir Borovikovsky was born in

poruchik
and devoted his life to art — mostly icon painting for local churches.

Virgin Mary

Borovikovsky lived in Mirgorod until 1788, where he painted icons and portraits in the

Peter I of Russia and Catherine II as peasants sowing seeds and Catherine II as a Minerva) for her rooms. The paintings so pleased the Empress that she requested that the painter move to Saint Petersburg
.

After September 1788 Borovikovsky lived in Saint Petersburg where he changed his surname from the Cossack Borovik to the more aristocratic-sounding Borovikovsky. For his first ten years in Saint Petersburg, he lived in the house of the poet, architect, musician and art theorist, Prince Nikolay Lvov, whose ideas strongly influenced Borovikovsky's art. At the age of 30 years, he was too old to attend St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, so he took private lessons from Dmitry Levitzky and later from Austrian painter Johann Baptist Lampi.

In 1795 he was appointed an academician. He became a popular portrait painter and created about 500 portraits during his lifetime, 400 of which survived to the 21st century. He had his own studio, and often relied on assistants to paint the less important parts of a portrait. His sitters included members of the imperial family, courtiers, generals, many aristocrats, and figures from the Russian artistic and literary worlds. Most of his portraits are intimate in style.

The Annunciation

The most notable are:

  • Portrait of
    Catherine II
    , Empress of Russia
    (1794)
  • Portrait of E. N. Arsenyeva (1796)
  • Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina (1797)
  • Portrait of F. A. Borovsky (1799)
  • Portrait of Paul I, Emperor of Russia (1800)
  • Portrait of Prince A. B. Kurakin (1801–1802)
  • Portrait of Princess A. G. Gagarina and Princess V. G. Gagarina (1802).
  • Portrait of Serbian Prince Karadjordje' 1816

Borovikovsky never taught in the Imperial Academy of Art but pupils lived in his home. Among them were Alexey Venetsianov and Bugaevsky-Blagodarny (who painted the only survived portrait of Vladimir Borovikovsky).

After 1819 Borovikovsky became a

Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg
.

On April 6, 1825 he died suddenly of a heart attack and was interred in the

.

Characteristics of the works

The Archangel Gabriel

In the late 1790s, Borovikovsky gains fame as a famous portrait painter. He painted with his left hand.[8]

His work is dominated by chamber portraits. In female images, Borovikovsky embodies the ideal of beauty of his era.

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 Tsarskoselsky park (1794), submitted to the Academy of Arts, Borovikovsky was appointed an academician.[9]

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.

В. Borovikovsky painted several ceremonial portraits. Borovikovsky's ceremonial portraits show the brush's mastery of texture: the softness of velvet, the brilliance of gilded and satin vestments, and the sparkle of precious stones.

The work of Borovikovsky is a fusion of classicist and sentimental styles.

In his later years, Borovikovsky returned to religious painting, including several icons for the ongoing construction of the Kazan Cathedral and the iconostasis of the Church of Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg. He gave painting lessons to the then aspiring artist Alexey Venetsianov.

Religious paintings

Portraits

  • Catherine II in Tsarskoe Selo (1794)
    Tsarskoe Selo
    (1794)
  • Portrait of Dmitry Levitzky (1796)
    Portrait of Dmitry Levitzky (1796)
  • Portrait of Morteza Qoli Khan Qajar (1796)
    Portrait of Morteza Qoli Khan Qajar (1796)
  • Portrait of Maria Lopukhina (1797)
    Portrait of Maria Lopukhina (1797)
  • Portrait of F. A. Borovsky (1799)
    Portrait of F. A. Borovsky (1799)
  • Portrait of Paul I, Emperor of Russia (1800)
    Portrait of Paul I, Emperor of Russia (1800)
  • Portrait of Alexander Kurakin (1801-1802)
    Portrait of Alexander Kurakin (1801-1802)
  • Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1800s)
    Portrait of
    Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
    (1800s)
  • Portrait of Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1811)
    Portrait of
    Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
    (1811)
  • Portrait of A. G. and A. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky (1814)
    Portrait of A. G. and A. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky (1814)
  • Karađorđe Serbian Prince (1816)
    Karađorđe Serbian Prince (1816)
  • Portrait of Ye. A. Arkharova (1820)
    Portrait of Ye. A. Arkharova (1820)
  • Portrait of Ioannis Varvakis
    Portrait of Ioannis Varvakis

Literature

  • С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). Vol. 2. pp. 21–22.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 22.
  2. ^ Sarabianov, Andrei D. "Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  3. ^ Three centuries of Russian painting. Kitezh Art Publishers, 1994. P. 404.
  4. ^ Sarabianov, Andrei D. "Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky". Encyclopædia Britannica.
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  7. ^ "НЭБ - Национальная электронная библиотека". rusneb.ru - Национальная электронная библиотека. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
  8. OCLC 646402947
    .
  1. ^
    • Russian: Владимир Лукич Боровиковский
    • Ukrainian: Володимир Лукич Боровиковський, romanizedVolodymyr Lukych Borovykovskyi

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