Sylvester Shchedrin

Sylvester Feodosiyevich Shchedrin (; 13 February 17918 November 1830) was a Russian landscape painter.

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.V. N. Alekseyev ''History of Russian Art, Minsk, Harvest, 2004 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; 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.Biography of Silvester Shchedrin on Olga's gallery
/ref> 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.Sylvester Shchedrin in Staratel library

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".Shshedrin in Krugosvet encyclopedia
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.

Shchedrin influenced not only Russian art but Italian art as well. He was one of the founders 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

File:Schedrin NewRome.jpg, New Rome. Castel Sant'Angelo (1823)
File:Schedrin Albano.jpg, Lake of Albano (1825)
File:Shchedrin veranda.jpg, Terrace on the Seashore
File:Schedrin BolshGavanVSore.jpg, Marina Grande, Capri
File:SCHEDR LunNoch.jpg, Moonlit Night in Naples
File:Sylvester Shchedrin. Balcony. In Sorrento.jpg, Balcony in Sorrento

See also

* List of Russian artists

References

External links

Olga's Gallery

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1791 births
1830 deaths
Landscape painters from the Russian Empire
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
Male painters from the Russian Empire
People from Sorrento
People from Campania
19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire