The Boyarina
The Boyarina c1885 by Russian Painter Konstantin Makovsky (1839 – 1915); specializing in Russian Historical paintings showing an idealized view of Russian life in past centuries.
This is a portrait of beautiful young lady of the Boyar class in Russia, that was part of the Russian Nobility ; just below that of a Prince; which was abolished by Peter The Great when he took power in 1697 and began to make reforms to the Russian system of governance.
She is sitting in an arm chair wearing a floral red blouse with white sleeves and white embroidery down the center; along with a large silver braided neck piece and necklace and a matching large silver headpiece.
She is also wearing a silver ring with a white pearl on her left hand; and is partially covered with a brown fur coat.
She has a solemn look on her face as light streaming illuminates her face and body through a window.
This is a retouched digital art reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase as a stampa su tela in linea.
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Konstantin Makovsky era un influente pittore russu, affiliated with the “Peredvizhniki (I vagabondi)”. Parechje di i so pitture storichi, cum'è Sottu a Corona (1889) also known as The Russian Bride’s Attire and Before the Wedding, mostrava una visione idealizzata di a vita russa di i seculi precedenti. Hè spessu cunzidiratu un rappresentante di l'arte accademica.
Konstantin Makovsky hè natu in Mosca. U so babbu era una figura di l'arti russa è un pittore dilettante, Egor Ivanovich Makovskij. A so mamma era un cumpusitore, è sperava chì u so figliolu un ghjornu seguitassi i so passi. I so fratelli più chjuchi Vladimir è Nikolay è a so surella Alexandra anu ancu diventatu pittori.
In 1851 Makovsky intrì in a Scola di Pittura di Mosca, Scultura è Architettura induve diventò u primu studiente, ottene facilmente tutti i premii dispunibili. I so maestri eranu Karl Bryullov è Vasily Tropinin. Makovsky’s inclinations to Romanticism and decorative effects can be explained by the influence of Bryullov.
Although art was his passion, he also considered what his mother had wanted him to do. He set off to look for composers he could refer to, and first went to France. Before, he had always been a classical music lover, and listened to many pieces. He often wished he could change the tune, or style of some of them to make them more enjoyable. Later in his life it came true.
In 1858 Makovsky entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Da 1860 he participated in the Academy’s exhibitions with paintings such as Curing of the Blind (1860) and Agents of the False Dmitry kill the son of Boris Godunov (1862). In 1863 Makovsky and thirteen other students held a protest against the Academy’s setting of topics from Scandinavian mythology in the competition for the Large Gold Medal of Academia; all left the academy without a formal diploma.
Makovsky became a member of a co-operative (artel) of artists led by Ivan Kramskoi, typically producing Wanderers paintings on everyday life (Widow 1865, Herring-seller 1867, etc.). Da 1870 he was a founding member of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions and continued to work on paintings devoted to everyday life. He exhibited his works at both the Academia exhibitions and the Traveling Art Exhibitions of the Wanderers.
A significant change in his style occurred after traveling to Egypt and Serbia in the mid-1870s. His interests changed from social and psychological problems to the artistic problems of colors and shape.
In the 1880s he became a fashionable author of portraits and historical paintings. At the World’s Fair of 1889 in Paris he received the Large Gold Medal for his paintings Death of Ivan the Terrible, The Judgement of Paris, and Demon and Tamara. He was one of the most highly appreciated and highly paid Russian artists of the time. Many democratic critics considered him as a renegade of the Wanderers’ ideals, producing (like Henryk Siemiradzki) striking but shallow works,[2] while others see him as a forerunner of Russian Impressionism.
Makovsky was killed in 1915 when his horse-drawn carriage was hit by an electric tram in Saint Petersburg.