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Sylvester Feodosiyevich Shchedrin (Russian: Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин; 13 February 1791 – 8 November 1830) was a Russian landscape painter.

Sylvester Shchedrin
Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин
Self-portrait
Born	(1791-02-02)February 2, 1791 Saint Petersburg
Died	October 27, 1830(1830-10-27) (aged 39) Sorrento
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1811)
Known for	Painting
Awards

Biography

Sylvester Shchedrin was born in St. Petersburg into the family of the famous sculptor Feodosiy Shchedrin, rector of the Imperial 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 paintings. Among his teachers were his uncle, Semion Shchedrin, Fyodor Alekseyev, M.M. Ivanov and Thomas de Thomon.[1] In 1811 he graduated with several awards including the Large Gold Medal for his painting View from Petrovsky 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 in Rome; went to Naples to paint watercolors ordered by Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia;[1] then returned to Rome. The biggest achievement of that period was New Rome. Castel Sant'Angelo (1823). It was such a great success that he painted 8-10 variations of the painting, each from a slightly different angle and with different details.[2] His pension ended in 1823, but he decided to stay abroad as a freelance painter. In 1825 he finished his work Lake of Albano that was a new step in his movement to natural composition. In this painting he relaxed the boundary between subject and background, and moved from using formal colors.[3]

Shchedrin had many commissions and grew to become a well-known artist in Italy. He lived in Rome and Naples, working en 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".[4] At the end of the 1820s, Shchedrin began to draw uneasy, almost nightmarish nocturnal landscapes, which may have been inspired by his gradually declining health. He died in Sorrento in 1830. In a sense, the works of Shchedrin concluded a period of development of Russian art and started a new period.[1]

Shchedrin influenced not only Russian art but Italian art as well. He was one of the founders of the so-called Posillipo school.[4] 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.[4]

Works

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  New Rome. Castel Sant'Angelo (1823)
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  Lake of Albano (1825)
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  Terrace on the Seashore
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  Marina Grande, Capri
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  Moonlit Night in Naples
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  Balcony in Sorrento

See also

• List of Russian artists

References

External links

• Olga's Gallery

На других языках

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[de] Sylvester Feodossijewitsch Schtschedrin

Sylvester Feodossijewitsch Schtschedrin (russisch Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин); * 2. Februarjul. / 13. Februar 1791greg. in Sankt Petersburg, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 27. Oktoberjul. / 8. November 1830greg. in Sorrent, (Italien) war ein russischer Landschaftsmaler.

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- [en] Sylvester Shchedrin

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[fr] Sylvestre Chtchedrine

Sylvestre Chtchedrine (en russe : Сильве́стр Феодо́сиевич Щедри́н), né le 2 février 1791 (13 février 1791 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Saint-Pétersbourg et mort le 8 novembre 1830 à Sorrente en Italie, est un peintre russe, paysagiste.

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[it] Sil'vestr Feodosievič Ščedrin

Sil'vestr Feodosievič Ščedrin (in russo: Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин?; San Pietroburgo, 13 febbraio 1791 – Sorrento, 8 novembre 1830) è stato un pittore russo.

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[ru] Щедрин, Сильвестр Феодосиевич

Сильве́стр Феодо́сиевич Щедри́н (1791—1830) — русский художник, пейзажист.

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