Karl Brjullov Knihy

The drawings and watercolours presented in the publication and in the exhibition mainly belong to the Italian period of Brullov's work. These sketches of male and female Italian models, genre scenes from Italian life, pages from a romantic series depicting outlaws, pencil studies of Roman monks, pilgrims, travellers and street musicians, pages from a cycle of sentimental compositions on the theme of dreams from the artist's own mind. From the table of contents: Evgenia Petrova: Do we know brullov the draughtsman? / Mutual Investment Fund "Atlanta Art" collection: The Italian album / State Russian Museum collection: Italian artist's models in traditional dress.0Exhibition: The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (28.8.-9.2013).

This catalogue of a Russian Museum exhibition raises questions that pertain both to the work of Briullov and to the history of nineteenth-century Russian and Western European art. After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where historical painting and portraiture were primary, Briullov traveled to Italy in the 1820s and came into contact with different artistic priorities: painting from life and an emphasis on rendering everyday reality accurately. The result was a body of work, much of it unknown until recently, so different from what art historians had associated with Briullov{u2019}s style, that his authorship was doubted. These sketches and drawings, now in a Moscow private collection, are here juxtaposed with well-known works, which reveals much about Briullov{u2019}s technique and what he learned in Italy. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.