Karl Bryullov

1799–1852 · Russian Empire · Romanticism

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (23 December 1799 – 23 June 1852) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art. Wikipedia

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Dramatic Romantic scenes with glossy academic finish, Italian sun and catastrophe — The Last Day of Pompeii.

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“The Last Day of Pompeii”, 1833 — Russian Museum
“Horsewoman”, 1832 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Italian Midday (1827 version)”, 1827 — Russian Museum
“Italian morning”, 1823 — Kunsthalle Kiel
“Fortune-teller Svetlana”, 1836 — Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
“Christ in the Tomb” — Russian Museum
“Italian girl by a fountain”, 1844 — Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts
“The Assassination of Inês de Castro”, 1834 — Russian Museum
“Self-Portrait”, 1848 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Countess Yulia Samoilova Retiring from a Ball with her Foster Daughter Amazilia Pacini”, 1800s — Russian Museum
“Siege of Pskov by the Polish king Stefan Batory in 1581”, 1843
“Genserich's Invasion of Rome”, 1836 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Bathsheba”, 1832 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Mathieu Wielgorsky”, 1828 — Belarusian National Arts Museum
“Daphnis and Chloe”, 1801–1900 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Sophia Shuvalova (married name Bobrinskaya)”, 1849 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Sophia Shuvalova, married name Bobrinskaya”, 1846 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of General-Adjutant Count Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky”, 1837 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Comtesse Saltykova”, 1841 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy”, 1836 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of Mariya Arkadyevna Bek with her Daughter”, 1839 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Siege of Pskov” — Russian Museum
“Portrait of N. A. Okhotnikov”, 1827 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna with her daughter”, 1830 — Russian Museum
“Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868)”, 1836 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Porträt des Count Alexy Perovsky”, 1835 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of the Writer A. N. Strugovshchikov”, 1840 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Sylvester Shchedrin”, 1824 — Russian Museum
“Pyotr Basin”, 1830 — Russian Museum
“Ivan Vitali”, 1836 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Yakov Yanenko”, 1841 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of the Princess Olga Ivanovna Orlova-Davydova with her daughter Natalya Vladimirovna”, 1834 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Ulyana Smirnova, née Spiridonova”, 1837–1844 — Russian Museum
“Italian Midday (1831 version)”, 1831 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Bacchic group”, 1824 — Russian Museum
“A Dream of a Girl Before a Sunrise” — Pushkin Museum
“A Turkish Girl”, 1837 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Benediction”, 1824 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Landscape on the island of Madeira”, 1850 — Russian Museum
“The Shishmareva Sisters”, 1839 — Russian Museum

Karl Bryullov

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