Andrei Matveev: Painting Allegory from Antwerp to Russia

Samu, Margaret

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Title

Andrei Matveev: Painting Allegory from Antwerp to Russia

Author(s)

Samu, Margaret

Issue Date

2024-01

Keyword(s)

• Andrei Matveev
• painting
• allegory
• history painting
• portraiture
• art academies
• hierarchy of genres
• study abroad
• Minerva
• allegory of painting
• Peter I
• Catherine I
• Russia
• Netherlands
• Antwerp

Abstract

In 1725, artist Andrei Matveev sent his Allegory of Painting to Catherine I from Antwerp, where Peter the Great had sent him to study. Matveev’s Allegory remains the earliest known easel painting on an allegorical subject by a Russian painter. This article examines the circumstances surrounding the painting’s creation in Antwerp and explores its iconography and sources. It then considers the place of Matveev’s work amid the allegorical imagery produced in early eighteenth-century Russia. This study offers a possible new interpretation of the painting and sheds light on the role Antwerp and its artistic legacy played in fostering Russia’s emerging artistic culture.

Series/Report Name or Number

ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 11

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v11.1420

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• Copyright 2023 Margaret Samu
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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