Imperial portrait

The album introduces the reader with the art of the Russian Imperial portrait. This genome subtype of the parade portrait originated in the era of absolutism. The main thing in the imperial portrait is not so much the transfer of visual similarity, how much the exaltation of the customer. To approve his high social status, they needed special artistic funds, and therefore portraitists could like him to the deity or mythological hero, they represented in the image of the "cultural hero" or warrior hero, etc. In Russian painting of the XVIII-XIX centuries, originated and received Development of different subtypes of the imperial portrait: coronation, throne, equestrian, military, hunting and others.
Compiled by A. Astakhov