Carl Brullov

Karl Pavlovich Brullov is the only Russian artist of the classical eighteenth century to win European fame during the course of his lifetime and world fame by the time of his demise. A talented painter and a professional artist of the highest standard, Brullov was endowed with a dazzling array of vivid and attractive personal qualities - an original bent of mind, brilliant education, independent opinions and actions, regal disdain for material blessings, official awards and honours, uncanny freedom of behaviour and utter devotion to art. He alone among his colleagues, students and contemporaries was accorded the grateful and esteemed epithet of Karl the Great . The artistic genius of the age of Romanticism, Karl Brullov regarded the artist as a specific species unlike other men - a unique entity endowed with divine talent and outstanding human characteristics, which define the idiosyncrasies of the artist's daily existence. His own life was a series of exceptional acts that the...ISBN:3-930775-80-8