Mikhail Ivanovich Scotti or Michele Pietro Scotti (Russian: Михаил Иванович Скотти; 29 October 1814,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

- 11 March 1861,

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) was a Russian historian, portrait and religious painter of Italian ancestry.

Biography

His father was the decorative painter, (originally, Giovanni Battista Scotti), who was probably born in Northern Italy and brought to Russia at the age of ten by his father, , also a painter, who was invited there by Giacomo Quarenghi.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet. He received his primary education at Saint Catherine's Catholic school. After his father's death, he was adopted and raised by the artist, Alexei Yegorov, who had himself been an orphan. He also audited classes at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

, and was awarded a silver medal for drawing from life. He graduated with a gold medal in 1835.Brief biography
@ Russian Paintings. For a time, he worked on the estate, near

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, giving drawing lessons and painting icons. Shortly after, he went to Italy, by way of Germany with Count

Pavel Kutaisov Count Pavel Ivanovich Kutaisov (Russian:Павел Иванович Кутайсов; 25 November 1780, Saint Petersburg - 9 March 1840, Tambov) — was a Georgian born Russian Imperial Chamberlain and Steward. He also served as Chairman of t ...

, chairman of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, and remained there until 1844. That year, he painted icons for the Russian Orthodox chapel at the embassy in Istanbul. In 1845, he created another series of icons for Saviour Cathedral in

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, for which he was awarded the title of "Academician". After 1849, he went to Moscow to replace as a teacher and inspector at the

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. His students there included

Konstantin Makovsky Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Константи́н Его́рович Мако́вский; (20 June o.c.) 2 July n.c. 1839 – 17 o.c. (30 n.c.) September 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the " Peredvizhni ...

Nikolai Nevrev Nikolai Vasilyevich Nevrev (russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Не́врев; 1830, Moscow – 3 May 1904, Mogilev Governorate) was a Russian painter who specialized in genre and historical scenes. Life Nevrev was born to a family ...

Vasily Perov Vasily Grigorevich Perov (russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в; 2 January 1834 (21 December 1833 Old Style, O.S.) – 10 June (29 May O.S.) 1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realism (arts), R ...

and Sergei Gribkov. He also continued to paint numerous religious works; notably at the Annunciation Church in Saint Petersburg, under the direction of its designer, Konstantin Thon. In 1857, he began to travel, visiting Italy, Spain and France. He died in Paris after a brief, sudden illness and was buried at the

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Works

Скотти - На карнавале в Венеции.jpg, At the carnival in Venice (1839) Scotti-Italian.jpg, Flowers for the Madonna (1841) Скотти - Пять братьев Бенуа.jpg, Five brothers Benois (1847) Italian Lady by Mikhail Scotti.jpg, Italian Lady (1850s) Minin i Pozharskiy.jpg,

Kuzma Minin Kuzma (Kozma) Minin (; full name Kuzma Minich Zakhariev-Sukhoruky, born late 1570s - died 1616) was a Russian merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who, together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, became a national hero for his role in defending the ...

and Dmitry Pozharsky (1850)

References

External links

"I tried to improve myself ..."
the painter Mikhail Scotti, by Lyudmila Markina @ Наше Наследие (Our Heritage)
"Flowers for the Madonna. On the bicentenary of Mikhail Scotti's birth"
from the Tretyakov Gallery magazine. {{DEFAULTSORT:Scotti, Mikahil 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian people of Italian descent Painters from Saint Petersburg 1812 births 1861 deaths Russian genre painters Russian portrait painters Religious artists Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture faculty