The work from the collection of Tyumen Museum and Educational Society is a study to the painting Death of Virginia by Nikolai Nikolaevich Ghe.
Nikolai Ghe was born in 1831 to a family of a landlord of French origin.
When he was nineteen, he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied in the class of a painter Peter Brasin. However, young Ghe was disappointed with conservatism of the academic method. He considered himself to be ‘a student in spirit’ of Karl Bryullov. The temperamental art of his predecessor, his creative approach to the classical legacy, romantic aspiration to the expression of strong dramatic conflicts was close to him. Bryullov’s influence revealed itself especially great in the first years of Ghe staying in Italy after graduating from the Academy — Ghe arrived in this country in 1857. For most of the painters Italy was a sublime imagine of a “promised land”, “real paradise” for a man of art. Nikolai Ghe wrote:
Nikolai Ghe was born in 1831 to a family of a landlord of French origin.
When he was nineteen, he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied in the class of a painter Peter Brasin. However, young Ghe was disappointed with conservatism of the academic method. He considered himself to be ‘a student in spirit’ of Karl Bryullov. The temperamental art of his predecessor, his creative approach to the classical legacy, romantic aspiration to the expression of strong dramatic conflicts was close to him. Bryullov’s influence revealed itself especially great in the first years of Ghe staying in Italy after graduating from the Academy — Ghe arrived in this country in 1857. For most of the painters Italy was a sublime imagine of a “promised land”, “real paradise” for a man of art. Nikolai Ghe wrote:
