- Sylvester Shchedrin
Sylvester Feodosiyevich Shchedrin ( _ru. Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин;
13 February 1791 -8 November 1830 ) was aRussia n landscape painter.Sylvestr Shchedrin was born in
St. Petersburg into the family of the famous sculptor Pheodosiy Shchedrin, rector of theImperial Academy of Arts . The landscape painter,Semion Shchedrin , was his uncle. In 1800, Sylvester Shchedrin entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he studied landscape painting. Among his teachers were his uncle, Semion Shchedrin,Fedor Alekseev , M.M. Ivanov andThomas de Thomon .V. N. Alekseyev "History of Russian Art, Minsk, Harvest, 2004 ISBN 985-13-1199-5 ru icon] . In 1811e graduated with several awards including the Large Gold Medal for his painting "View fromPetrovsky Island " that gave him a scholarship to study abroad.Sylvester left for Italy in 1818, delayed due to the
Napoleonic Wars . In Italy, he studied the old masters inRome ; goes toNaples to paint watacolrs ordered byGrand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia ; then return back to Rome. The biggest achievement of that period was that was a new step in his movement to the natural composition. In this painting he relaxed the boundary between subject and background, moved from using the formal colors. [http://staratel.com/pictures/ruspaint/720.htm Sylvester Shchedrin in Staratel library] ru icon ]Shchedrin had many commissions and grew to become a well-known artist in Italy. He lived in
Rome andNaples , workingen plein air , drawing bays and cliffs and views of small towns and fishermen villages. One of his favorite motifs were terraces in vines with a view of the sea. Referred as the images of the "Midday Paradis". [http://staratel.com/pictures/ruspaint/720.htm Shshedrin in Krugosvet encyclopedia] ru icon ] At the end of the 1820s, Shchedrin began to draw nighttime uneasy, almost nightmarish landscapes, which may have been inspired from his gradually declining health. He died inSorrento in 1830. In a sense works of Shchedrin concluded the whole period of developing of Russian art and started the new period in its development.Shchedrin influenced not only the Russian art but Italian art as well. He was one of the founder of the so called "
Posillipo school". Many of his works are in Italian museums while some were returned to Russia. Shchedrin's letters full of important artistic observations were published as a book (Shchedrin "Letters from Italy") in 1932 and reprinted in 1978.Works
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* [http://www.abcgallery.com/S/shchedrin/shchedrin.html Olga's Gallery]
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