Bogdan (Ivan) Ievlevich Saltanov | |
|---|---|
 Cross of Kiy of the Crucifix church in Moscow Kremlin. 1670s | |
| Born | 1630s |
| Died | 1703 |
| Nationality | Persia, Russia |
| Known for | Icons, engravings, interior decoration |
| Patron(s) | Alexis I of Russia |
Bogdan Saltanov (Russian: Богдан Салтанов; 1630s – 1703[1]), also known as Ivan Ievlevich Saltanov,[2] was a Persian-born Armenian painter at the court of Alexis I of Russia and his successors. Saltanov headed the painting workshop of the Kremlin Armoury from 1686. Saltanov's legacy includes Orthodox icons for church and secular use, illuminated manuscripts, secular parsuna portraits including the portraits of Stepan Razin and Feodor III of Russia as a young man (see Attribution problem).
Igor Grabar considered Saltanov and his contemporaries Ivan Bezmin and Vasily Poznansky as the fourth and the last class of Simon Ushakov school, an "extreme left wing in the history of Russian icon art, the Jacobins whose art departed with the last traces of an already evaporated tradition" (Russian: Они являются “крайней левой” в истории русской иконописи ушаковской эпохи — теми якобинцами, в искусстве которых исчезают последние следы и без того уже довольно призрачной традиции).[3] Studies of the 1990s–2000s partially refute this statement, asserting that Saltanov was substantially independent of Ushakov and his legacy.[4]
- ^ Kazaryan, 1969, asserted that in 1703 Saltanov did not die, but left Russia and returned to Persia as Russian envoy. This assumption was refuted by subsequently found archive evidence (Komashko, p.47).
- ^ Alternative name used by Grabar; later Russian sources unanimously use the name Bogdan
- ^ Grabar, chapter XIII
- ^ Buseva-Davydova
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