Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky (russian: Константин Дмитриевич Флавицкий; – ) was a Russian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Biography

Flavitsky received his art education at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and was a student of Professor Fyodor Bruni. Received silver medals from the Academy for drawings and sketches from life. In 1854, he was awarded a small gold medal for his painting ''The Court of Solomon''. He graduated from the academic course (1855), receiving the title of the artist. He received a large gold medal from the Academy of Fine Arts for his work ''Jacob’s Children Sell His Brother Joseph'', which allowed him to travel to Italy to study between 1856 and 1862, as a pensioner of the Academy. He returned to Russia in 1862. The following year, he was recognized as an honorary free member of the Academy for the large painting ''Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum'', made in Rome. At the exhibition in 1864, the painting '' Princess Tarakanova'' brought him the title of professor at the Academy of Arts and attracted the attention of art lovers and the public. The artist died at the age of 35. His health was severely undermined by consumption. The disease developed in the conditions of the Saint Petersburg climate. His most famous painting is '' Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood'' based on the legend of the death of Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova, the self-styled daughter of

Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky Count Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky (russian: Граф Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Разумо́вский, uk, Граф Олексій Григорович Розумовський; 1709–1771) was a Ukrainian-born Russian R ...

and Elizabeth of Russia in her prison cellar during the flood in Saint Petersburg. "In his art Konstantin Flavitsky adhered to classical traditions, the principles bequeathed by K. P. Bryullov. His creative heritage is not extensive and he is known primarily as the author of the painting Princess Tarakanova. The work is based on a legend from Russian history according to which Princess Tarakanova, who said she was the daughter of Empress Elizabeth and Alexei Razumovsky and laid claim to the Russian throne in Catherine the Great's reign, died in the Peter and Paul Fortress during the flood of 1777. Flavitsky depicts with great tragic power the suffering of this young woman facing certain death in a gloomy dungeon flooded with water, depicting her helplessness and despair most expressively."''Masterpieces of the State Tretyakov Gallery'', Red Square Publishers, .

Works

Флавицкий Константин Дмитриевич - Суд Соломона (1854) Новгородский музей-заповедник.jpg, Solomon's Court Konstantin Flavitsky 001.jpg, Jacob's children sell their brother Joseph Konstantin Flavitsky - Christian Martyrs in Colosseum.jpg, Christian martyrs in the Colosseum Флавицкий Константин Дмитриевич - Вакх (1850-е).jpg, Bacchus Флавицкий Константин Дмитриевич - Итальянка (1860) Калужский художественный музей.jpg, Italian girl 1862 Flavitsky Prinzessin Tarakanow anagoria.JPG, '' Princess Tarakanova'', in the

Peter and Paul Fortress The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. Between the first half of the 1700s and early 1920s i ...

at the Time of the Flood (earlier version from 1862) Tarakanova.jpg, Princess Tarakanova, in the

at the Time of the Flood (later version from 1864)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Flavitsky, Konstantin 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 1830 births 1866 deaths Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire