Artist Dmitry Levitsky-Russian portraitist
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Dmitry Levitsky belongs to the people who brought glory to Russian art.
One of the most famous Russian artists, who in his time the first portrait painter, said about him president of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1824godu A. Olenin, two years after the death of the master. He escaped the sad fate of many Russian artists of the eighteenth century, long and unjustly neglected: this name has not disappeared from the memory of posterity. For many generations of viewers of his works became the personification of the entire Russian school of portrait of the eighteenth century, the highest achievements of national culture, not ustupazhschih best western European models. He was born in 1735godu in Ukraine. His father, priests Gregory Levitsky was a very educated man, a good engraver, he became the first teacher of his son. Then, the amateur painter passed apprenticeship with the painter Alexander Antropov and together they carried out orders for decorative painting. Antropov was himself a gifted portraitist, with precision of physiognomic characteristics. His talented pupil has attained perfection in the ability to see and convey in the portrait image of the most important traits of the man. With 1769goda Levitsky settled in St. Petersburg before the end of days by associating with the city his creative destiny. And until the last days of his life was devoted to the artist art portrait. Channel
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One of the most famous Russian artists, who in his time the first portrait painter, said about him president of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1824godu A. Olenin, two years after the death of the master. He escaped the sad fate of many Russian artists of the eighteenth century, long and unjustly neglected: this name has not disappeared from the memory of posterity. For many generations of viewers of his works became the personification of the entire Russian school of portrait of the eighteenth century, the highest achievements of national culture, not ustupazhschih best western European models. He was born in 1735godu in Ukraine. His father, priests Gregory Levitsky was a very educated man, a good engraver, he became the first teacher of his son. Then, the amateur painter passed apprenticeship with the painter Alexander Antropov and together they carried out orders for decorative painting. Antropov was himself a gifted portraitist, with precision of physiognomic characteristics. His talented pupil has attained perfection in the ability to see and convey in the portrait image of the most important traits of the man. With 1769goda Levitsky settled in St. Petersburg before the end of days by associating with the city his creative destiny. And until the last days of his life was devoted to the artist art portrait. Channel
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