Russian Architecture and the WestThis is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russia’s leading architectural historian, departs from the accepted notion that Russian architecture developed independent of outside cultural influences and demonstrates that, to the contrary, the influence of the West extends back to the tenth century and continues into the present. He offers compelling assessments of all the main masterpieces of Russian architecture and frames a radically new architectural history for Russia. The book systematically analyzes Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. Special attention is directed toward decorations based on Byzantine models; the heritage of Italian master builders and carvers; the impact of architects and others sent by Elizabeth I; the formation of the Russian Imperial Baroque; the Enlightenment in Russian art; and 19th- and 20th-century European influences. With over 300 specially commissioned photographs of sites throughout Russia and western Europe, this magnificent book is both beautiful and groundbreaking. |
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Russian architecture and the West
Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictThis book aims to lasso Russian architecture and pull it into the corral of European architecture, going back 1000 years-which, argues the author, is an about-face in the historiography of Russian ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
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The Building of Fioravantis Cathedral of the Dormition | 84 |
Russian Italian and Byzantine Features of the Cathedral of the Dormition | 85 |
The Solari Building Dynasty in Milan and Moscow | 91 |
The Late Fifteenthcentury Lombard Fortifications and Grand Princes Palace in the Kremlin | 92 |
Alevisio Lamberti da Montagnana and the Burialplace of the Princes of Moscow | 99 |
Moscow Traditional Architecture in the Renaissance Period | 108 |
The Architecture of the First of the Romanovs and Christopher Galloway | 151 |
The Architecture of Alexis Mikhaylovich | 166 |
RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BAROQUE | 183 |
Architectural Manners in Moscow in the Early Petrine Era | 185 |
The Image of a New Empire | 193 |
Peter the Greats Foreign Architects | 197 |
Baroque St Petersburg | 205 |
The Birth of Russian Imperial Baroque | 209 |
Vasily III and the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye | 111 |
PostByzantine Mannerism? The Stylistic Features of Sixteenth and Seventeenthcentury Russian Architecture | 123 |
St Basils Cathedral and the Architectural Tastes of Ivan the Terrible | 126 |
The Meaning of St Basils Cathedral | 138 |
New Towerform and Traditional Churches in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century | 140 |
English Architects at the Court of Ivan the Terrible 146 | 144 |
Tradition and a NewWave of Italianisms | 150 |
The Style of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli | 210 |
CharlesLouis Clerisseau Charles Cameron Giacomo Quarenghi and Nikolay Lvov | 254 |
THE EUROPEAN CENTURY 201 | 291 |
THE SOVIET AND POSTSOVIET ERAS | 357 |
Notes | 386 |
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