Medallion with the image of the holy faith mosaic, metal frame. 1862. Diameter 62 cm. The mosaic was executed by master a. I. Sivers from the original by i. P. Raulov. The individual portrait characteristics of the character of the medallion are emphasized by the characteristic techniques of academic painting of the second half of the 19th century. This is why the famous st. Petersburg mosaicist alexander ivanovich sivers (1828-1879) chose the technique of roman mosaic to translate the watercolor original of the academician of painting ivan petrovich raulov (1828-1869). This technique made it possible to convey more subtle pictorial solutions in their nuances. By the middle of the 19th century, mosaic had become almost exclusively a reproduction technique, imitating the techniques of easel painting. A. I. Sivers managed to convey by means of mosaic the expression of special concentration and spirituality in the face of the portrait subject. In 1849, a. I. Sievers, a student of e. Ya. Vekler, was awarded the title of a non-class artist for his mosaic "head of the savior". In 1859, he returned from rome, where he had studied the mosaic art of italy and byzantium for five years. There he also created two images of st. Nicholas the wonderworker, commissioned from him by the chernigov noble society in honor of the 25th anniversary of the reign of nicholas i. One of the mosaics created by the artist earned the approval of the emperor. Date: 1862.
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