Henryk Siemiradzki: Selected Paintings

By Polina Peeva

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843 – 1902) was a Polish-Russian painter, best remembered for his monumental Academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by national galleries of Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
Many of his paintings depict scenes from antiquity, often the sunlit pastoral scenes or compositions presenting the lives of early Christians. He also painted biblical and historical scenes, landscapes, and portraits. His best-known works include monumental curtains for the Lviv Theatre of Opera and for the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre in Krakow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher s13381
• Release date: Aug 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826464800

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Foreword

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843 – 1902) was a Polish-Russian painter, best remembered for his monumental Academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by national galleries of Poland, Ukraine and Russia.

Many of his paintings depict scenes from antiquity, often the sunlit pastoral scenes or compositions presenting the lives of early Christians. He also painted biblical and historical scenes, landscapes, and portraits. His best-known works include monumental curtains for the Lviv Theatre of Opera and for the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre in Krakow.

Siemiradzki was born to a Polish noble family of an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, Hipolit Siemiradzki, and Michalina (née Prószyńska) in Belgorod (now Pechenihy, Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine), near the city of Kharkiv, where his father's regiment was stationed. The family had origins in Radom land and derived its name from the village of Siemiradz. One of the