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“Boris Godunov” and “Vasily Shuisky” by Ivan Shtenglin
In the middle of the 18th century, the interest of the Russian society in national history increased. Ivan Shtenglin, a master from Augsburg, Germany, who worked in Russia, completed from 1742 to 1780 a series of engraved portraits of Russian tsars. Among them are the images of Boris Godunov and Vasily Shuisky, the images of which subsequently attracted the attention of Pushkin. Continue reading
especially outstanding
huge cycle of murals
statue was created
master worked
painters from England
technique of oil painting
outlines of buildings
inhuman tension.
figures are graceful
constant companions
aspiring artist
monuments of the city’s
supposedly saved
linear perspective
ambassador to Greece
joyful beauty
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introduction of an orange-red
thus emphasizing
easel paintings
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variety of color
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