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4 unusual facts about Imperial Academy of Arts


Grigory Chernetsov

In 1819, Grigory Chernetsov arrived to Saint Petersburg where he wanted to enroll to the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Jean-Michel Moreau

He was the pupil of the painter Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain who accompanied his master to St Petersburg in 1758 when Le Lorrain went to be the first director of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts established the previous year, where Moreau briefly taught drawing before returning to Paris in 1759, after Le Lorrain's unexpected death.

Lubov

Lubov claims to have trained at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia, where her focus was on the classical application of oils.

Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre

He was active in Moscow (1767), and later in St. Petersburg (beginning in 1768), where he taught at the Imperial Academy of Arts and painted portraits of family members of Petr Borisovich Sheremetev—one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time.


Mikhail Clodt

He learnt drawing at the Saint Petersburg Mining Cadet Corps, then at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1851–1858).

Municipal Okrug 7

The majority of the tourist sights, such as the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, Kunstkamera, Saint Petersburg State University, Imperial Academy of Arts, and the Menshikov Palace are located there.

Rudolf Frentz

In 1918 Rudolf Frentz graduated from Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he studied of noted battle painters Vasily Savinsky and Nikolai Samokysh.

Shuvalov

the Baroque palace of Ivan Shuvalov on Italianskaya Street, constructed in 1749-55 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, later sold to the Ministry of Justice, best known as the place where the Imperial Academy of Arts started to operate;

Universitetskaya Embankment

It features an ensemble of Petrine Baroque buildings of the early 18th century, including the Kunstkamera, Twelve Collegia, Menshikov Palace, as well as the neoclassical building of the Academy of Arts.


see also

Josep Maria Sert

Her father, Cyprian Godebski (1835–1909), was a renowned Polish sculptor and professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1870.