Imperial portrait. Astakhov A., Milyugina

The album introduces the reader to the art of the Russian imperial portrait. This genre subtype of the front portrait originated in the era of absolutism. The main thing in the imperial portrait is not so much the transfer of visual similarities as the exaltation of the customer. Ala, the statements of his high social status needed special artistic means, and therefore the portraiters then likened it to the deity or the mythological hero, or represented in the image of the “cultural hero” or a warrior hero, etc. In Russian painting of the XVIII-XIX centuries they arose and received Development of different subtypes of the imperial portrait: coronation, throne, horse, military, hunting and others.