The Native Land of Beauty. <i>The Role of Italian Genre in the Developing Academic Art Conception</i>
The article deals with the problem of defi ning how important were the so called «Italian scenes» in the development of academism in the Russian art of the second half of XIX century, for which it was something like a laboratory of very important basic artistic ideas and topics. The term «Italian scenes» is applied to a vast group of paintings depicting every-day life scenes in Italy, created in the 1820s mostly by Brulloff whose works are studied here in depth. The author tries to fi nd there the earliest signs of the artistic concept which later developed fully in the so called «historical genre» («Pompeian genre»), mainly in the works o Hendrix Semiradsky.