Template:The Last Day of Pompeii - Google Art Project

Summary

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Artist	Template:Creator:Karl Briullov
Title	The Last Day of Pompeii
Object type	Painting
Description	English: Briullov visited Pompeii in 1828 and made sketches depicting the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption. The painting received rapturous reviews at its exhibition in Rome and brought Briullov more acclaim than any other work during his lifetime. The first Russian artwork to cause such an interest abroad, it inspired an anthologic poem by Alexander Pushkin, and the novel The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It depicts a classical topic but exhibits characteristics of Romanticism as manifested in Russian art, including drama, realism tempered with idealism, interest in nature, and a fondness for historical subjects. A self portrait is in the upper left corner of the painting, under the steeple, but not easy to identify.
Date	(1830 - 1833)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	Height<colon> 456.5 cm (179.7 in). Width<colon> 651 cm (256.3 in).
Current location	Template:Institution:Russian Museum
Accession number	AP-SRM-001
Exhibition history	English: Exhibited in Rome and then transported to the Louvre in Paris. Commissioned by Prince Anatole Demidov, who donated it to Nicholas I of Russia, who displayed it at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Transferred to the Russian Museum at its opening in 1895.
Source/Photographer	Google Art Project<colon> Home - pic
Other versions	See Category:The Last Day of Pompeii (Karl Briullov). with frame Soviet Union stamp

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