Volodymyr and Rohnida

Володимир і Рогніда

ArtistAnton Losenko

MovementRomanticism

Year1770

MediumOil on canvas

LocationState Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

Losenko's program piece, one of the first history paintings drawn from the Kyivan Rus past.

About the Artist

Anton Losenko

1737–1773

Born in Hlukhiv in the Cossack Hetmanate and taken young to the St. Petersburg court choir, Losenko became a pioneer of neoclassical history painting, known for monumental canvases from antiquity and Kyivan Rus.

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Movement

Romanticism

Romanticism—an ideological and artistic movement in European and American culture from the late 18th century to the first half of the 19th century—is characterized by the affirmation of the intrinsic value of the individual’s spiritual and creative life, the depiction of intense (often rebellious) passions and characters, and the portrayal of nature as inspiring and healing. It spread to various spheres of human activity. In the 18th century, anything strange, picturesque, and existing in books rather than in reality was called romantic. At the beginning of the 19th century, Romanticism became the name for a new movement, opposed to Classicism and the Enlightenment.

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