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Nicholas (Nikolai) Leontjewitsch Benois

Nicholas (Nikolai) Leontjewitsch Benois (1813 - 1898) was active/lived in Russian Federation, Germany.  Nicholas Benois is known for Architectural painting-buildings.

Nikolai Benois was born to French parents in Russia. From 1827 his first tutor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts was Ivan Gomzin (1784-1831), but in 1831 Kh. F. Meyer (1789-1848) replaced him. Under the latter's guidance, Benois produced a design for a house of a rich landowner (1834) that was influenced both by the tradition of the Renaissance villa and by Count Aleksandr Stroganov's Neo-classical dacha (1796; by Andrey Voronikhin) in St. Petersburg. Benois's design for the College of Jurisprudence (1836) was awarded the Academy's Great Gold Medal. This graduation project contained reminiscences of classicism, as did his project for a museum a year earlier (awarded the Great Silver Medal).

Benois began practice as an assistant to Konstantin Ton, an adherent of the Russo-Byzantine style, working as a draughtsman on the construction of the cathedral of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow (1832-80; destroyed 1930s). In 1840 he visited Germany, where he made drawings of Romanesque b   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4639 characters.]  Artist bio

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