Keywords
Russian art, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, landscape painting, ideal landscape, topographical views, plainer, Rome, Sylvester Shchedrin, “The New Rome. The Castle of St. Angelo”,
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Yaylenko E. V. Topographical views vs landscape: “The New Rome. The Castle of St. Angelo” by Sylvestr Shchedrin // The Art of Eurasia, 2020. № 2 (17). P. 99-115. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2020.02.006.
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Abstract
This article deals with the works of the great Russian Romantic painter Sylvestr Shchedrin. These works are for the first time investigated on the background of the broad tendencies, which took place in the development of the landscape in the European Romantic painting in the first half of the 19th century. The main subject of this article is the evolution of some basic schemes and stylistic features, which were used in the tradition of topographic views, dealing with the depiction of architecture and natural landscapes. It treats some paintings in which Russian painter depicted famous views of ancient and modern Rome. The author of the article triesto show how the development of plain-air painting practice and the use of the stylistic forms borrowed from the tradition of ideal landscape transforms the very practice of topographic views, which could be seen on the example of the paintings, which form the coherent series and named “The New Rome. The Castle of St. Angelo”.
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