Alexander Litovchenko
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Alexander Litovchenko | |
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Александр Литовченко | |
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Born | |
Died | June 16, 1890 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | (aged 55)
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Saint Petersburg |
Education | Member Academy of Arts (1868) |
Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1863) |
Known for | Painting |
Style | Realism, Classicism |
Movement | Peredvizhniki |
Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Литовченко; Ukrainian: Олександр Дмитрович Литовченко; 26 March [O.S. 14 March] 1835 – 28 June [O.S. 16 June] 1890) was a Russian painter.[1] He specialized in depicting Muscovite Russia of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Biography
[edit]Litovchenko attended the Imperial Academy of Arts and, although criticised by his peers for rather stilted compositions, was awarded a lesser gold medal for his rendering of Charon transporting the souls of the dead across the Styx. Along with several other young painters, he challenged the spirit of academism that was prevalent at the Academy and in 1863 left it to become a freelance painter, joining the Peredvizhniki movement in 1876.
In 1868, Litovchenko was recognized as an academician for his picture of a falconer serving at the court of Tsar Alexis (one of his several versions of the subject). Among his larger paintings, Ivan the Terrible Showing His Treasures to Jerome Horsey (1875) was purchased by the Tsar for the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg, and Tsar Alexis and Archbishop Nikon Venerating the Relics of Patriarch Philip (1886) was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov for his collection in Moscow (as were the finest of his portraits).
Litovchenko is also remembered as the author of seven murals in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and a set of icons for the Crimean War memorial in Sevastopol.
- Alexander Litovchenko's works
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Ambassador Horatio Calvucci sketching the favorite falcons of Tsar Alexis I (1889)
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Tsar Alexis praying before the relics in the presence of Metropolitan Philip and Patriarch Nikon
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Charon Carrying Souls Across the River Styx (1861)
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Ivan the Terrible showing his treasures to Jerome Horsey, the English Ambassador (1875)
References
[edit]- ^ "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu.
Further reading
[edit]- Shestimirov, Aleksandr A. (2004). Забытые имена: русская живопись XIX века (in Russian). Moscow: Belyi gorod. pp. 152–159. ISBN 5-7793-0832-2. OCLC 315220468.
- Vereshchagina, Alla G. [in Russian] (1962). "Александр Дмитриевич Литовченко". In Leonov, Alexei I. (ed.). Русское искусство. Очерки о жизни и творчестве художников. Вторая половина XIX века (in Russian). Vol. 1. Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 71–82. OCLC 71538004.
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. .
External links
[edit] Media related to Alexander Litovchenko at Wikimedia Commons
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- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
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- People from Kremenchuk
- People from Poltava Governorate
- 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
- Male painters from the Russian Empire
- People from the Russian Empire of Ukrainian descent
- Ukrainian male painters
- Russian history painters
- Peredvizhniki
- 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)