<h1 id="alexandre-benois-mir-iskusstva-or-paintings-and-graphics-or-lora-(krea2-turbo)">Alexandre Benois — Mir Iskusstva | Paintings &amp; Graphics | LoRA (Krea2 Turbo)</h1>LoRA trained on the complete artistic legacy of Alexandre Benois (1870–1960): paintings, watercolours, gouache, pastels, theatre sketches and book illustrations. The model captures his elegant World of Art (Mir Iskusstva) manner — the nostalgic Versailles and 18th-century Petersburg scenes, the Ballets Russes costume designs, the Pushkin illustrations, and the refined graphic line over translucent washes.Trained and tested on Krea2 Turbo.<hr /><h2 id="about-the-artist">About the Artist</h2>Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (Александр Николаевич Бенуа, 3 May 1870 – 9 February 1960) was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, stage designer, and a founding father of the Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) movement — the group that defined the Russian Silver Age and directly gave birth to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.<ul><li>1870 — born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family of architects and artists (his father Nicholas Benois designed the Peterhof railway station; his brother Leon Benois and nephew Nikolai were also architects)</li><li>1894 — graduated from the Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg University, but chose art over a legal career</li><li>1898 — co-founded Mir Iskusstva magazine with Sergei Diaghilev and Léon Bakst, the manifesto publication of Russian aestheticism</li><li>1905–1910s — became the chief visual ideologue of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris; designed Les Sylphides, Pavillon d'Armide, Petrushka, Le Pavillon de la Fée</li><li>1918–1926 — curator of the Old Masters gallery in the Hermitage, saving countless works during the Revolution</li><li>1926 — emigrated to Paris, where he lived and worked until his death in 1960</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="the-manner">The Manner</h2><ul><li>18th-century stigmata: his lifelong obsession — the court of Louis XIV and Louis XV, Versailles, Watteau, the French Rococo rendered with archaeological precision and deep melancholy</li><li>Petersburg panoramas: the Neva, Palace Square, the Winter Canal, Peterhof — architectural vistas with high horizons and receding perspectives</li><li>Theatrical vision: every canvas is a proscenium; figures are actors, spaces are stage-sets, light is limelight</li><li>Translucent layering: watercolour or gouache washes over delicate pencil or sepia ink; the line work carries the architecture, colour carries the atmosphere</li><li>Pastel palette: dusty rose, faded gold, slate blue, olive green, powder grey — the colours of aged silk and faded frescoes</li><li>Nostalgia as method: his paintings are elegies for eras he never lived through; the sadness of a civilisation passing</li><li>Stylised historicism: not academic reconstruction but a poet's memory of an imagined past; figures wear 18th-century costumes like theatre props</li><li>Graphic precision: his drawings and costume designs use a thin, confident, calligraphic line — influenced by Beardsley, French engravings and Japanese woodcuts</li><li>Masked balls and masquerades: his favourite motif — anonymous elegance, powdered wigs, dominoes, the comedy of aristocratic leisure</li><li>Book illustration: the Pushkin cycle (The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades) — arguably his most celebrated graphic achievement</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="tested-generation-settings">Tested Generation Settings</h2>ParameterValueBase modelKrea2 TurboVAE<code>qwen_image_vae</code>Text encoder<code>qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled</code>Steps8SamplerEuler aSchedule typeBong TangentCFG scale1Resolution1536×2048 (portrait); 2048×1536 (landscape panoramas)LoRA weight0.85–1.0Negative prompt not required at CFG 1. ersions<ul><li>Epoch 18 (current) — balanced style adherence and detail; stable on both paintings and graphic designs.</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="rights-and-ethics">Rights &amp; Ethics</h2>Alexandre Benois died in 1960. His works are largely in the public domain in most jurisdictions (70 years post mortem expired 2030 in EU/RU — check local law for commercial use). This LoRA is a fan-art and educational tool. Credit the artist when publishing results.

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