# KOZLOVSKY, Mikhail Ivanovich [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1753–1802 - Profession: sculptor - School: Russian ## Biography Russian sculptor. From 1764 to 1773 he studied at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Nicolas-François Gillet. In 1772 he was awarded a gold medal for the relief Warriors Recognize Izyaslav Mstislavovich \(plaster; St Petersburg, Russian Museum\). He spent the period 1774 to 1778 in Rome on a scholarship and then worked in France, returning to Russia in 1786. He was in France for a second time from 1788 to 1790. Kozlovsky continued to produce reliefs \(e.g. Orpheus Taming the Wild Beasts, plaster, 1783-84; Pushkin, Concert Hall\) and was also a talented draughtsman. He is primarily known, however, for a number of small statues and sculptural groups on antique themes, executed in a classical manner: Sleeping Cupid \(marble, 1792; Pavlovsk Palace\), Hymen \(marble, 1796\), Minerva and the Genius of the Arts \(bronze, 1796\), Ajax with the Body of Patroclus \(terracotta, bronze and marble, 1796; all St Petersburg, Russian Museum\), Hercules on Horseback \(bronze, 1799; St Petersburg, Russian Museum and Pavlovsk Palace\) and Sleeping Shepherd \(marble, 1800; Pavlovsk Palace\). ## Related artworks - [Girl wit a Butterfly]() - [Hercules on Horseback]() - [Minerva and the Genius of the Arts]() - [Polycrates]() - [Samson]() - [Shepherd Boy]() - [Suvorov Monument]() - [The Vigil of Alexander the Great]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()