Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783 - 1873)
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Russian: Фёдор Петрович Толстой) was a 19th-century Russian artist, count, and uncle of the writer Leo Tolstoy. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, medallist, stage designer, representative of late Russian classicism.
Fyodor Tolstoy created wax bas-reliefs on subjects from ancient history, medallions, which depicted in allegorical form the events of the war with Napoleon, sculptures, watercolors, including landscapes, illustrations in a manner of severe pen drawing, graphic silhouettes, portraits, images of interiors, still lifes. In many of his works, imbued with a poetic perception of antiquity, the principles of classicism received a new interpretation, close to romanticism.
Tolstoy was the vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Arts and had the rank of privy councilor, one of the highest in the Russian Empire.
| Date and place of birt: | 21 february 1783, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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| Date and place of death: | 25 april 1873, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Nationality: | Russia, Russian Empire |
| Period of activity: | XIX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Educator, Graphic artist, Landscape painter, Medalist, Painter, Portraitist, Scenographer, Sculptor |
| Art school / group: | Московское художественное общество, Общество поощрения художников |
| Genre: | Allegory, History painting, Landscape painting, Mythological painting, Portrait, Religious genre, Still life |
| Art style: | Classicism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Russian classicism |
