Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (1827 - 1905)

Lev Feliksovich Lagorio

Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (Russian: Лев Феликсович Лагорио) was a 19th century Russian artist of Italian origin. He is known as a landscape painter, marine painter, master of battle and portrait genres. His art reflects traditions of academic painting and is inseparably connected with the sea. His first teacher was the famous marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky.

Lev Lagorio traveled extensively through Europe. In his works, according to critics, the serenity of the Italian school merged with Russian psychologism. Realistic image is enhanced by the contrast of light and shadow, the careful elaboration of the smallest elements. The water in the artist's paintings has depth, the coastal rocks are painted down to the fault lines, on the plants you can see even the leaves.

Another genre Lagorio mastered through his participation as a correspondent in the Russo-Turkish War in the late 1870s. He painted battle scenes from the dramatic events of the war up until the mid-1890s, meticulously and meticulously tracing them.

Most of Lаgоrio's works are in the collections of Russian and foreign museums in the former Soviet Union.