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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Луки́ч Боровико́вский, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Лýкич Боровикóвський, Volodymyr Lukych Borovykovskyi; July 24 O.S. (August 4, N.S.) 1757, Mirgorod – April 6 O.S. (April 18, N.S.) 1825, St. Petersburg) was a prominent Russian Imperial artist of Ukrainian Cossack background,[2] who served at the court of Catherine the Great and dominated portraiture in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th century.

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
Portrait of Vladimir Borovikovsky by Bugaevsky-Blagodatny
BornAugust 4, N.S., 1757
Mirgorod, Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire
DiedApril 18, N.S., 1825
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1795)[1]
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts[1]
Known forPainting
MovementOrientalist

Biography


Vladimir Borovikovsky was born in Mirgorod,[3][4] Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) on July 24, 1757 in a family with Ukrainian Cossack background.[5] His father, Luka Borovik, was an icon-painter.[6] According to the family tradition, all four of Borovik's sons served as Cossacks in Mirgorod regiment, but Vladimir retired early at the rank of poruchik and devoted his life to art — mostly icon painting for local churches.

Borovikovsky lived in Mirgorod until 1788, where he painted icons and portraits in the Cossack Baroque tradition.[7] His friend Vasily Kapnist was preparing an accommodation for Empress Catherine II in Kremenchuk during her travel to newly conquered Crimea. Kapnist asked Borovikovsky to paint two allegoric paintings (Peter I of Russia and Catherine II as peasants sowing seeds and Catherine II as a Minerva) for her rooms. The paintings so pleased the Empress that she requested that the painter move to Saint Petersburg.

After September 1788 Borovikovsky lived in Saint Petersburg where he changed his surname from the Cossack Borovyk to the more aristocratic-sounding Borovikovsky. For his first ten years in Saint Petersburg, he lived in the house of the poet, architect, musician and art theorist, Prince Nikolay Lvov, whose ideas strongly influenced Borovikovsky's art. At the age of 30 years, he was too old to attend St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, so he took private lessons from Dmitry Levitzky and later from Austrian painter Johann Baptist Lampi.

In 1795 he was appointed an academician. He became a popular portrait painter and created about 500 portraits during his lifetime, 400 of which survived to the 21st century. He had his own studio, and often relied on assistants to paint the less important parts of a portrait. His sitters included members of the imperial family, courtiers, generals, many aristocrats, and figures from the Russian artistic and literary worlds. Most of his portraits are intimate in style.

The most notable are:

Borovikovsky never taught in the Imperial Academy of Art but pupils lived in his home. Among them were Alexey Venetsianov and Bugaevsky-Blagodarny (who painted the only survived portrait of Vladimir Borovikovsky).

After 1819 Borovikovsky became a Freemason, member of a lodge Dying Sphinx. At that time he mostly painted icons, including Iconostasis of the Smolensky Cemetery church and some icons for Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.

On April 6, 1825 he died suddenly of a heart attack and was interred in the Lazarevskoe Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Saint Petersburg.


Characteristics of the works


In the late 1790s, Borovikovsky gains fame as a famous portrait painter. He painted with his left hand.[8]

His work is dominated by chamber portraits. In female images, Borovikovsky embodies the ideal of beauty of his era.

The artist subtly conveys the inner world of the people he portrays. In a chamber, sentimental portrait with limited emotional expression, the master can convey the diversity of innermost feelings and experiences of the models portrayed.  For the canvas "Catherine II for a walk in the Tsarskoselsky park (1794), submitted to the Academy of Arts, Borovikovsky was appointed an academician.[9]

In the 1810s Borovikovsky attracted a strong, energetic personality, he focuses on the citizenship, nobility, dignity of the portrayed. The appearance of his models becomes more restrained, the landscape background is replaced by a depiction of the interior.

В. Borovikovsky painted several ceremonial portraits. Borovikovsky's ceremonial portraits show the brush's mastery of texture: the softness of velvet, the brilliance of gilded and satin vestments, and the sparkle of precious stones.

The work of Borovikovsky is a fusion of classicist and sentimental styles.

In his later years, Borovikovsky returned to religious painting, including several icons for the ongoing construction of the Kazan Cathedral and the iconostasis of the Church of Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg. He gave painting lessons to the then aspiring artist Alexey Venetsianov.


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References


  1. Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 22.
  2. Sarabianov, Andrei D. "Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  3. Three centuries of Russian painting. Kitezh Art Publishers, 1994. P. 404.
  4. Peter Leek (2012), Russian Painting, Parkstone Press, p. 49, ISBN 9781780429755
  5. Sarabianov, Andrei D. "Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow: Russian and Soviet Painting. Aurora Art Publishers. 1986.
  7. Leek, Peter (2012). Russian Painting. Parkstone International. p. 49. ISBN 9781780429755.
  8. "НЭБ - Национальная электронная библиотека". rusneb.ru - Национальная электронная библиотека. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
  9. Nikolaev, O. I︠U︡.; Николаев, О. Ю. (2010). Ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡ russkoĭ zhivopisi. Moskva: OLMA Media Grupp. ISBN 978-5-373-02769-4. OCLC 646402947.


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На других языках

[de] Wladimir Lukitsch Borowikowski

Wladimir Lukitsch Borowikowski (russisch Владимир Лукич Боровиковский, wiss. Transliteration Vladimir Lukič Borovikovskij, ukrainisch Володимир Лукич Боровиковський .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Wolodymyr Lukytsch Borowykowskyj; * 24. Julijul. / 4. August 1757greg. in Mirgorod; † 6. Apriljul. / 18. April 1825greg. in Sankt Petersburg) war ein russischer[1][2][3][4] Maler, Ikonenmaler und Porträtmaler ukrainischer Herkunft[5], der als der letzte große Vertreter der russischen und ukrainischen Porträtmalerei am Übergang vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert gilt.
- [en] Vladimir Borovikovsky

[es] Vladímir Borovikovski

Vladímir Lukich Borovikovski (en ruso Влади́мир Луки́ч Боровико́вский) (24 de julio de 1757 - 6 de abril de 1825 según el calendario juliano) fue un pintor ucraniano quien dominó el arte del retrato en el Imperio Ruso durante finales del siglo XVIII e inicios del siglo XIX.

[fr] Vladimir Borovikovski

Vladimir Loukitch Borovikovski (en russe : Владимир Лукич Боровиковский ; en ukrainien : Володимир Лукич Боровиковський, Volodymyr Loukytch Borovykovsky), né le 24 juillet 1757 (4 août 1757 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Mirgorod et mort le 6 avril 1825 (18 avril 1825 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Saint-Pétersbourg, est un peintre d'origine ukrainienne, portraitiste, qui a dominé l'art russe de la fin du XVIIIe siècle au début du XIXe siècle. Il fut l'élève de Levitski.

[ru] Боровиковский, Владимир Лукич

Влади́мир Луки́ч Боровико́вский (24 июля [4 августа] 1757, Миргород, Российская империя — 6 [18] апреля 1825, Санкт-Петербург, Российская империя) — русский художник[6], мастер портрета, академик Императорской Санкт-Петербургской академии художеств.


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