Lacquer paintings by Sergey Knyazev
Lacquer paintings by Sergey Knyazev
Fantastic world of the tale Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen painted on this lacquer box. Alongside with beautiful painting, the miniature painting amazes with its three-dimensional effect. The master achieves this effect with the help mother-of-pearl inlays that shine with a variety of undertones. Besides, it is lustrous gold and silver metal leaf inlays, silver powder, gold paint and a special layer upon layer method of painting. The author of these brilliant artworks is Sergey Knyazev who lives in the old Russian city of Vladimir. He studied design and decoration in the art college of Ivanovo. And his favorite style is Russian lacquer art Fedoskino. Sergey paints in oils, and combines design, oil painting, fantasy, paper mache and gold leaf.
An exquisite portrait of a young girl in traditional Russian attire. Her rich dress and expensive jewels say that she is the daughter of a noble boyar. She isn’t married as her head is covered with the bright red ribbon decorated with large pearls, but not with a kokoshnik that is a typical head-dress of married women in ancient Russia. The girl depicted here embodies the Russian ideal of female beauty. Thick eyebrows and eyelashes, big blue eyes, red fleshy lips and pink cheeks have been always the standards of female beauty in Russia.
Lacquer paintings by Sergey Knyazev

Snowmaiden is a heroine of a popular Russian fairy-tale. She leaves Father Frost`s kingdom to see the human world

The temple of Christ the Savior, magnificent building in the center of Moscow, not far from the Kremlin

The greatest fantasy world by Tolkien – Lord of the rings. Lacquer paintings by Russian artist Sergey Knyazev

The greatest fantasy world by Tolkien – Lord of the rings. Lacquer paintings by Russian artist Sergey Knyazev

Two girls walking at white nights reading poems written by Pushkin, in the streets of St. Petersburg

“Through the Looking Glass And What Alice Found There”. Alice is coming through the mirror to other world

Carnival in St. Petersburg, unreal world of 18th century. It represents a fantastic dream of all people to fly into the sky

White-stoned Rostov Kremlin situated in the ancient Russian town of Rostov (first mentioned in the chronicles in 862)

Ivan Tsarevich and Princess Elena. The box shows an episode from the fairy-tale “Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf”
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