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<p>Неизвестный художник. Апофеоз Петра I (Аллегория Полтавской баталии). 1710-е. ГИМ
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Oil on canvas. 141,5 х 126
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Inscription on the banner: УСЛЫШИТЕ СИЯ ВСИ ЯЗЫЦЫ, ВНУШИТЕ ВСИ ЖИВУШЫЙ ПОВСЕЛЕННОЙ. Lower on the scroll an inscription repeating the text from the engraving by D. Galyakhovsky. Inscription in the upper left cartouche: САМПСОНЪ and following is the text from «The Book of Judges» (XIV, 6). Inscription in the upper right cartouche: ДАВИДЪ and following is the text from «The First Book of the Kings» (XVII, 34-35). Inscription in the lower left cartouche: ВАНЕАСЪ and following is the text from «The Second Book of the Kings» (XXIII, 20). Inscription in the lower right cartouche: ДАНIИЛЪ and further - the text from «The Book of Daniel» (VI, 22).
</p><p>SHM
Inv. 68257/ИI-5987
</p><p>Transferred in 1930 from the Museum of the Military History, Moscow.
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Composition of the picture copies the one of the engraving by Daniel Galyakhovsky (1709), which was presented to Peter I in Kiev by Mitropolit Theophan Prokopovich to celebrate the victory at Poltava. The picture is full of allegoric images, typical for Peter I time, presumably invented by Theophan Prokopovich circle. In the centre - Peter I on horseback, trampling the Swedish lion. On the right - defeated Swedes, the figure on the foreground, whose breast is exposed to the horse’s hoof, is seemingly Charles I. In the corners of the picture in the oval medallions are the Biblical heroes, famous for lion wrestling: Samson, David, Vaneas and Daniel. The Galyakhovsky’s engraving, probably not survived, is reproduced in the publication: Al’bom vystavki XII Archeologicheskogo s’ezda v g. Khar’kove. M., 1903. Tabl. 33 (Album of the Exhibition at the XII Archaeological Congress in Khar’kov).</div>
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early 1710s <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/8</div>
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