Genoa 1639-Rome 1709 Related Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli Called Baccicio :. | Portrait of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici | Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne | The Worship of the Holy Name of Jesus, with Gianlorenzo Bernini, on the ceiling of the nave of the Church of the Jesus in Rome. | St John the Baptist | Continence of Scipio | Related Artists: Pietro Vannuci called il Perugino Citta della Pieve ca 1448-Fontignano 1523 Grigoriy Soroka (Russian, real surname Vasilyev. November 27 [O.S. November 15] 1823-April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1864) was a Russian painter, one of the most notable members of Venetsianov school.
Soroka was born in Pokrovskoye village (Tver Guberniya), in the family of landowner Milyukov. In 1842-1847 he studied art from Alexey Venetsianov then he was returned to his owner. In 1850s-1860s he resided in his home village. He fell in love with his owners's daughter Lydia but was forcibly married to a serf woman. After the emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, Soroka remained under the serfdom system. He made a formal complaint but it was rejected and he was flogged. Soroka's body was found in the baking room where he had hanged himself. His beloved Lydia poisoned herself soon after. Frans Wilhelm Odelmark painted Canale Grande - Venice in 1849-1937
