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''The Last Day of Pompeii '' is an enormous canvas painted by Karl Briullov in 1830-33. In the wake of the Vesuvius eruption in 1828 , the Russian painter visited the site of Pompeii and made numerous sketches. When completed, the canvas was exhibited in Rome to rapturous reviews of critics and thereafter transported to Paris to be displayed in the Louvre . The first Russia n artwork to cause such an interest abroad, it gave birth to a wonderful anthologic poem by Alexander Pushkin . Characteristically, Sir Walter Scott declared that it wasn't an ordinary painting but an Epic in colours. The commissioner, Prince Anatole Demidov , donated it to Nicholas I Of Russia who had it displayed at the Imperial Academy Of Sciences for the instruction of young painters. Upon the opening of the Russian Museum in 1895 , the vast canvas was transferred there, so that a larger number of people could see it in person. |
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