Karya karl briullov biography

Karl Bryullov was the son of the academician of ornamental sculpture Pavel Bryullov. He was born in St. Petersburg and at the age of nine he became a pupil at the Academy of Arts, where his older brothers was already enrolled. 

Many leading artists of this particular time, i.e.

A. I. Ivanov. A. Ye. Yegorov, V. K. Shebuyev, noticed Biyullov's rare abilities at an early age. According to one of his friends he left the Academy with 'handfuls' of awards and all the minor and major silver medals.

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However, his teachers were not at all pleased by the young artist's works, which violated the strict academic rules.

For example, a competition painting *Narcissus Admiring His Reflection in the Water* (1819, RM), was judged to show 'reprehensible fantasy', and the young Bryullov was blamed for depicting a classical character against a non-classical background.

Moreover, the artist had 'upset' the purity of the ideal form by 'daring' to show shadow fr