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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Study for 'The Return of Pope Pius IX to Rome from Basillica Santa Maria Maggiore'
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Russian son of an Italian sculptor, Karl Bryullov studied at the Imperial
Academy from 1815 to 1821 under the guidance of Andrei Ivanov
(1772–1848). He settled in Rome between 1823 and 1824 and had major
success with The Last Day of Pompeii, (1830–3; St. Petersburg,
Russian State Museum), inspired by archaeological research, Pliny's
account, and Pacini's opera (1825). The work reputedly moved
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