Fyodor Bruni

Kingdom of Italy · 1799–1875

Fedele Giovanni Baroffi Bruni, russified as Fyodor Antonovich Bruni was a Russian painter and draughtsman of Swiss Italian descent, active during the Romantic period, best known for his history paintings. Along with his contemporaries Karl Bryullov and Alexander Ivanov, Bruni is considered among the most important Russian artisans during Tsar Nicholas I's reign. == Biography == His father, Antonio, was a Swiss Italian painter and art restorer who relocated to Russia in 1800 to work on a project at Saint Michael's Castle for Tsar Paul I. At the age of ten, he was enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied with Alexei Yegorov, Andrey Ivanovich Ivanov and Vasily Shebuyev. He graduated in 1818 with the title "Artist Class XIV".

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