The article is devoted to interpretation of the costume in Russia’s
academic art of early classicism. The features of depicting the char-
acters’ clothing in the historical painting of the second half of the
18th century are of interest to a wide range of researchers who touch
upon the problems of a number of related disciplines: theory and his-
tory of art, costume history, issues of everyday life and character of
the epoch. Focusing on the ideals of the ancient art, artists of the age
of enlightenment classicism tried to reveal images of the characters
of both Russian and world’s history in many ways with the help of a
costume. A detailed analysis of the works of historical painters of the
XVIII century, in which the new vision of the costume is most clearly
shown, allows us to draw a conclusion about its role as a formative
and coloristically signifi cant element of historical painting of that time.
Keywords: costume, historical painting, Ancient Rus, classicism, A. P. Losenko,
I. A. Akimov, G. I. Ugryumov.
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