Show all images on one page	#005120 Title: Italian View Artist: Buzovkin Iliya Size: 12.5x19.5x2.5 Size (inches): 5x3.75x1 Price : $495 SOLD!

This picturesque Italian view has been painted Ilya Buzovkin who is an expert in painting seascapes. The depicted scene is an interpretation of the famous canvas-on-oil painting originally painted in the end of the nineteenth century by the outstanding Russian artist, Alexey Bogolyubov (1824 - 1896). This masterpiece is exhibited in the Regional Art Museum named after M.S. Tuganov situated in the North Ossetia.
Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranye village of Novgorod Gubernia. His maternal grandfather was the well-known philosopher and social critic Alexander Radishchev. In 1841, Alexey graduated from military school, serving in the Russian Navy and travelling with the fleet to many countries. In 1849, he started to attend classes of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he studied under Maxim Vorobiev. The young painter was greatly influenced by Ivan Ayvazovsky. In 1853, he finished the Academy with a major Gold medal. He retired as a navy officer and was appointed an artist to the Navy headquarters.
In 1885, Bogolyubov opened an art museum in Saratov, the Radischev Art Museum, named after his grandfather. It was the first art museum in Russia open to everybody. It was opened to the general public seven years earlier than the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fifteen years earlier than the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Bogolyubov died on the 3rd of February,1896 in Paris. After his death, Bogolyubov left all his money and capital (around 200 thousand Russian rubles (approximately US$6 million) to the museum and its painting school. The school was opened after Bogolyubov's death and named Bogolyubov's Painting School. Among painters who attended Bogolyubov's School were such important modernist painters as Victor Borisov-Musatov and Pavel Kuznetsov.
The sceneis framed with a gold line; the box's sides are decorated with two parallel gold lines.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge is fastened to the top of the scene, and the box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed with the artist's name, the title and the year of 2000.