1 . Karl Briullov was born in St. Petersburg in 1799 to Italian parent . He attended the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts but never fully embraced the style teach there . After completing his educational activity in 1821 , he left for Rome , where the pop artistic trend were more similar to his own .
2 . Briullov traveled throughout Italy , include a sojourn to Pompeii after the Vesuvius bam of 1828 . With blanket research , Briullov start " The Last Day of Pompeii , " which take him three years to complete . Some of the rootage Briullov reference included Giovanni Pacini ’s opera house " L’Ultimo Giorno di Pompeii " and Pliny the Younger ’s eyewitness verbal description of the eruption .
3 . The final picture , quantify 456.5 atomic number 96 by 651 cm ( or about 15 foot . by 21 foot . ) , was a huge hitting in Italy . It inspired a verse form by Alexander Pushkin and a novel , The Last daytime of Pompeii ( 1834 ) , by Edward Bulwer - Lytton .
4 . Sir Walter Scott , who supposedly knelt in front of the prominent canvas and gaze at it for an minute , declare that " The Last Day of Pompeii " was not an ordinary painting , but rather an epos in colors .
5 . For " The Last Day of Pompeii , " Briullov won honour at the Paris Salon of 1834 , in addition to honorary memberships in the Academies of Bologna , Florence , Milan , and Parma .
6 . Known as " the Great Karl " by his friends , Briullov is generally regard as the first Russian creative person to gain international celebrity .
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