Russian Art History and Sitemap

Early Russian painting is represented in icons and vibrant frescos.

In the early 15th century, the master icon painter Andrei Rublev created some of Russia's most treasured religious art.

The Russian Academy of Arts, which was established in 1757, to train Russian artists, brought Western techniques of secular painting to Russia.

In the 18th century, academicians Ivan Argunov, Dmitry Levitzky, Vladimir Borovikovsky became influential.

Lesser Ury (1861-1931) | Impressionist painter

Lesser Ury was an German Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin.

In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.

David Cheifetz, 1981 | Figurative / Still Life painter

American painter David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz was born in the Pacific Northwest. A former architect, David started learning to paint with oils in the fall of 2007 while attending the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, and in 2009 made the transition to full-time artist. David currently lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, Yasmine.

Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873-1954) | Genre painter

Russian painter🎨 Ivan Silych Goriushkin Sorokopudov / Иван Силыч Горюшкин-Сорокопудов was born in the family of barge hauler Sila Goryushkin in the Nashchi village of the Tambov province in 1873.

Became an orphan in the early age and was sent to the distant relatives Sorokopudov belonged to the lower middle class from Saratov. So he obtained his double last name.

Ivan Slavinsky / Иван Славинский, 1968

Ivan Slavinsky was born in Leningrad, Russia. His father, Dmitry Oboznenko, painter of battle-pieces, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and his mother - Galina Patrabolova, art critic.

Ivan began to paint with 5 years professional skills was the at school at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The first exhibition of Ivan Slavinsky in St. Petersburg took place in the gallery "Association of Free Artists" in 1991.

Painter gradually began to acquire fame in St. Petersburg. There were invitations in the gallery in Moscow.

Later, in 1993 Ivan Slavinsky went to France, where he lived and worked on contracts in European galleries for ten years.

During this time he held solo exhibitions in Luxembourg, Dublin (Ireland), Stockholm (Sweden), Marseille, Paris (France) and other cities.

In 2003 Ivan Slavinsky returned to Russia in June 2007 in St. Petersburg opened an art gallery Ivan Slavinsky.

From April 2010 gallery bears the name of the owner and director Lazarev Gallery.

In 1997 Ivan Slavinsky is a member of Russian Union of Artists.

In 2009 Ivan Slavinsky became an artist-curator of the charity art event "ABC", which is held annually as part of the “Christmas Fair” in St. Petersburg.

Ivan Slavinsky è nato a Leningrado, in Russia. Suo padre, Dmitry Oboznenko, pittore onorato della RSFSR, e sua madre - Galina Patrabolova, critica d'arte.

Ivan ha iniziato a dipingere con 5 anni di abilità professionale all'Accademia di Belle Arti.

La prima mostra di Ivan Slavinsky a San Pietroburgo ha avuto luogo nella galleria "Association of Free Artists" nel 1991.

Il pittore iniziò gradualmente ad acquisire fama a San Pietroburgo.

Più tardi, nel 1993 Ivan Slavinsky andò in Francia, dove visse e lavorò per dieci anni con contratti nelle gallerie europee.

Durante questo periodo ha tenuto mostre personali a Lussemburgo, Dublino (Irlanda), Stoccolma (Svezia), Marsiglia, Parigi (Francia) ed altre città.

Nel 2003 Ivan Slavinsky è tornato a San Pietroburgo e nel giugno 2007 ha aperto una galleria d'arte Ivan Slavinsky.

Dall'aprile 2010 la galleria porta il nome del proprietario e direttore della galleria Lazarev.

Nel 1997 Ivan Slavinsky è membro dell'Unione Russa degli Artisti.

Nel 2009 Ivan Slavinsky è diventato artista-curatore dell'evento di beneficenza "ABC", che si tiene ogni anno nell'ambito della "Fiera di Natale" a San Pietroburgo.

Raphael (1483-1520) | The Madonnas

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino🎨, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work.

Raphael (1483-1520) | High Renaissance painter

For centuries Raphael has been recognised as the supreme High Renaissance painter, more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than their older contemporary Leonardo.
Though he died at 37, Raphael's example as a paragon of classicism dominated the academic tradition of European painting until the mid-19th century.
Raphael (Raffaello Santi) was born in Urbino where his father, Giovanni Santi, was court painter.

Algernon Talmage | Impressionist painter

Algernon Mayon Talmage R.A., R.O.I. (1871-1939) was a minor British Impressionist painter.

Talmage is best known for tutoring Emily Carr during her studies at St Ives in England when he lived and worked in his studio which was then called 'The Cabin' located on Westcotts Quay, St Ives.