Grigory Semenovich Musiki biography

The founder of the Russian portrait miniature on the enamel Finifi. Information about life and creativity is a few. He mainly worked as a master of portrait miniature on enamel. 16 subscription works of the master have been preserved, about 10 is attributed to him on the basis of stylistic analysis. The first documented information about the artist relate to - GG. He was listed as a painter of the arms chamber in Moscow in - gg.

These years have become the most fruitful for the Musical. Fulfent orders of Peter I and Prince A. Menshikov, three documents are known, Grigory Musiki. Miniature on enamel: a portrait of the Serene Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov. Grigory Musiki. In the city of official duties of the artist in these institutions, according to documents, are not traced.

In his spare time he carried out private orders, wrote miniature portraits for enamel. Took part in the design of printed calendars at least twice, making screensavers and endings; - On behalf of the Academy of Sciences.

At the end of the X - beginning of the x. The last well -known work of the artist is “Portrait of Anna Ioannovna”, a private collection. The early group portraits of the Musiki are characterized by the flattened space and the stiffness of the poses of models - qualities inherited from the masters of the arms chamber of the 17-18 centuries characteristic of the work of the arms chamber of the arms.

The decorative bright palette of the artist’s works is close to the style of Russian enamel art of the late 17th century. For color miniature, Grigory Musiki. The portrait of Peter I. The artist sought the most tender transitions of bodily tones by applying light dashed strokes over the main color, which shone through the upper layer. In late works, the master took possession of the techniques of a spatial composition, more frequently and naturally had the figures of models.

Among the surviving works, the salarys created by order of the Tsarist Court were dominated by the miniature portraits of Peter I and Catherine I, their children and the closest associates. The earliest of the artist’s indisputable work is the complained portrait of Peter I, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The master reflected in miniature an enamel a variety of portrait typology: he wrote poking and loading images on the neutral background “Portrait of the Tsesarevna Petrovna”, Hermitage; portraits of Peter I, and; "Portrait of Empress Catherine I",; Everything is the Russian Museum, St.

Petersburg, waist images with architectural landscape in the background “Portrait of Peter I against the backdrop of the Peter and Paul Square in St. Petersburg”, groups in the interior “Portrait of the Family of Peter I”,-; Both are the Hermitage and the equestrian “equestrian portrait of Peter I”,, a private collection of portraits. All works correspond to the front iconography of this genre of the Baroque era.

The complexity of the compositional construction in the miniatures of the Musiki is determined by its support on the samples of contemporaries - the painter of Y. Kupetskiy, the Swedish miniaturist Sh. Buata, Gravevov A. Zubov and P. Baroque representativeness are most pronounced in group portraits. Turning to them in the technique of miniatures on enamel s, the artist acted as an innovator “Portrait of Peter I and Ekaterina Alekseevna”,, a private collection; "Conclusion for the throne", Hermitage.

However, even in loading images, Musiki does not have a chamber atmosphere inherent in this form of a portrait and miniature as a form of art “Portrait of the Svetly Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov”, - Hermitage; “Portrait of the Tsarevna Natalia Alekseevna”, the Historical Museum, Moscow. In complex multi -figure and in simpler compositions, the master did not emphasize on the inner world of models, but on the exclusivity of their estate status, achieving solemn ceremonialness with the help of a juicy colorful gamut, spectacular costumes and details of the entourage, or objects protruding as allegories, staged poses depicted.

The peak of the Musiksky’s work includes paired portraits - “Peter I on the background of the Peter and Paul Fortress and Troitskaya Square in St. Petersburg” and “Catherine I on the background of the Yekaterinhof Palace in St. Petersburg”; Both are the Hermitage. The only religious composition of the Musiki - Panagia “The Crying of the Mother of God”, the arms chamber of the Moscow Kremlin, was preserved, although, according to documents, the artist repeatedly ordered such works, see the last update on June 13, to contact the editors on June 13.