Бруни Фёдор Антонович (1799-75)

Fyodor (Fidelio) Antonovich Bruni (Russian: Фёдор Антонович Бруни; 10 June 1799, Milan - 30 August 1875, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian artist of Italian descent who worked in the Academic style. He was the son of a Swiss Italian painter and art restorer who relocated to Russia in 1807 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 Alexey Egorovich Egorov, Andrey Ivanovich Ivanov and Vasily Shebuyev. He graduated in 1818 with the title “Artist Class XIV“. His father, believing that a Russian art education was insufficient, sent him for further studies in Italy. At the age of twenty-two, he created his first large-scale work (“The Death of Camilla“), which was exhibited in the Capitol. Ten years later, when the painting was shown in Saint Petersburg for the first time, it earned him the title of Academician. In the early 1830s, he began a monumental painting of “Moses E