Biography Sylvester Shchedrin

The canvases of Sylvester Shchedrin, which have long become a classic of domestic landscape painting, were highly appreciated by contemporaries and descendants of the artist. Shchedrin’s Italian landscapes have largely changed the traditional classic landscape image that dominated the domestic landscape school from the second half of the 18th century. Human figures in his paintings are not just stuffing conditional figures of people who revive the landscape and show the scale of architecture, and living people engaged in their daily work.

Truthfully conveying the life of fishermen and ordinary Italian citizens, the artist thereby made the features of the genre into his landscapes. Olenin, turning to the vice-chancellor K. Nesselrode, asked to take all measures so that the artist’s legacy would return to his homeland. In his opinion, the sale of paintings in Naples could become a "great loss for Russia." The works were sent to the brother of the painter A.

Shchedrin, who transferred some of them to the assembly of the Academy. In the second half of the 19th century, the landscapes of Shchedrin willingly acquired famous Moscow and St. Petersburg collectors, including F. Pryanishnikov, I. Tsvetkov, I. Ostroukhov, N. Bykov, K. Tretyakov bought nine paintings of the famous master. Sylvester Shchedrin was born in St.

Petersburg. His father is Feodosiy Fedorovich Shchedrin, a famous sculptor, rector of the Academy of Arts, a professor of sculpture class. In the year, at nine years old, the boy became a pupil of the Academy of Arts. By the time he had to choose a family of further classes, Sylvester was going to sign up for the landscape class of his uncle, professor of the Academy Semen Fedorovich Shchedrin.

But the uncle died on September 1. Since the year, the young summer artist became interested in landscape painting and moved to the landscape class to Professor M. From the very beginning of his work, Sylvester Shchedrin had a great talent. Even before the end of the course, for his work for drawings from nature, he was awarded a silver medal in the year and small gold in the year.

Finishing the Academy, in the year he painted the diploma painting "View from the Petrovsky Island." For it I received a large gold medal, which gave the right to retirement abroad. In connection with the war of the year, the young artist went to Italy only in the year. He worked in Rome as a pensioner of the academy, then moved to Naples, lived there since the year. In the summer he lived and worked in the vicinity of Amalfi Amalfi, a city near Naples - is located along the slope of the cliff, so that houses are connected to each other with stairs carved in the rock, and roofs serve as gardens.

Traveling along the coast, Shchedrin most often liked to be in Sorrento.

Here he worked every summer, starting from the year. And he added: "Landscape life cannot compare with anything." As one of the most gifted Russian landscape painters, he developed his personal type of landscape. Often “varying” the same motive, the artist created a series of landscapes “New Rome”, “Waterfalls in Tivoli”, “Pervors and Grottos”. One of the first in European art was carried away by the openier.

Shchedrin not only began, but also completed the paintings on the open air, trying to catch and convey the features of the color that changes under the influence of the light -air environment. I am writing everything from nature, which is why it takes a lot of time, ”he informed his mother in St. Petersburg. An outstanding achievement of the artist was the painting “New Rome.

The castle of the Holy Angel. " She became successful and "subsequently gave rise to a lot of imitation." Sylvester Shchedrin, for those who want to purchase this picture, created 8 or 10 options. Not repeating, but varying the time of day, details, angle and point of view. His work influenced the formation of the Neapolitan “Persilippo School” Scuola Napoletana di Posilippo.

One of the last paintings of a landscape painter, in which he still strictly follows the classic canons, “Old Rome. Colosseum ”also acquired P. and the composition of the landscape fully correspond to its“ historical ”content in the middle and far planes depicts the Coliseum and the construction of the Roman forum. However, a picturesque solution demonstrates the artist’s desire to get closer to genuine nature.

The outlines of architectural structures are softened by air haze, long oblique shadows make it possible to feel the presence of a real source of lighting. In this country, he remained until the end of his days. Sylvester Shchedrin died in Sorrento on October 27. Later he was reburied in the city cemetery of Sorrento. There is now a monument to the great artist Sylvester Shchedrin.

Sylvester Shchedrin. Self -portrait Tretyakov Gallery Sylvester Shchedrin. View from the Peter and Paul Islands. Russian Museum Sylvester Shchedrin. New Rome. The castle of the Holy Angel. Type of St. Petersburg. National Gallery, Helsinki Sylvester Shchedrin. Landscape with ruins. Italian landscape. Lago di Albano. Murjellin, Naples. Cave in Sorrento. Hermitage Sylvester Shchedrin.

Grotto Matromanio on the island of Capri. Terrace in Sorrento. Terrace on the seashore. The veranda entwined with grapes. Lunar night in Naples. Marina Grande, Capri. Type of Sorrento. Santa-Lucia embankment. The view of Amalfi is near Naples. Russian Museum Peter Basin. Portrait of Sylvester Shchedrin. Russian museum.