Russian architecture and the West / Dmitry Shvidkovskiy.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
Main Author:
Shvidkovskiĭ, D. O. (Dmitriĭ Olegovich)
Subjects:
Architecture > Russia.
Architecture > Russia > European influences.
Format: Book
Russian architecture and the West /
Table of Contents:
  • I. Between Byzantine and Romanesque
  • 1. A choice of faith and a choice of architecture
  • 2. The architecture of Kievan Rus' : the emergence of a model for sacred buildings
  • 3. Romanesque in North-eastern Rus' : the architecture of Vladimir - historical context
  • 4. The earliest cathedrals of North-eastern Rus'
  • 5. The churches of Andrey Bogolyubsky and the Lombard masters
  • 6. The Cathedral of St Demetrius and the depiction of paradise
  • 7. St George's Cathedral in Yur'yev-Pol'sky : an encyclopedia of Russian Romanesque
  • 8. The Mongol invasion and the absence of Gothic
  • 9. The beginnings of Moscow architecture
  • II. The Moscow renaissance
  • 1. Byzantine masters in Renaissance Italy and Moscow
  • 2. The prospects of a Moscow "renaissance"
  • 3. Foreigners' accounts of new buildings in Moscow at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • 4. Aristotele Fioravanti and Filarete
  • 5. Aristotele Fioravanti in Italy
  • 6. Fioravanti, Cardinal Vissarion and Semyon Tolbuzin
  • 7. The architectural programme of the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin and the "early Greek piety laid down by God"
  • 8. The building of Fioravanti's Cathedral of the Dormition
  • 9. Russian, Italian and Byzantine features of the Cathedral of the Dormition
  • 10. The Solari building dynasty in Milan and Moscow
  • 11. The late fifteenth-century Lombard fortifications and Grand Princes' Palace in the Kremlin
  • 12. Alevisio Lamberti da Montagnana and the burial-place of the princes of Moscow
  • 13. Moscow traditional architecture in the Renaissance period
  • 14. The symbolism of the third Rome : Vasily III and the church of the ascension in Kolomenskoye
  • III. Post-Byzantine "mannerism" in the Muscovite state
  • 1. Post-Byzantine "mannerism"? : the stylistic features of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russian architecture
  • 2. St Basil's cathedral and the architectural tastes of Ivan the Terrible
  • 3. The meaning of St Basil's cathedral
  • 4. New tower-form and traditional churches in the second half of the sixteenth century
  • 5. English architects at the court of Ivan the Terrible
  • 6. The reign of Boris Godunov : tradition and a new wave of Italianisms
  • 7. The architecture of the first of the Romanovs and Christopher Galloway
  • 8. The architecture of Alexis Mikhaylovich
  • IV. Russian imperial baroque
  • 1. Peter the Great's architectural reforms
  • 2. Architectural "manners" in Moscow in the early Petrine era
  • 3. The founding of St Petersburg and the transformation of Moscow : the image of a new empire
  • 4. Peter the Great's foreign architects
  • 5. Baroque St Petersburg
  • 6. The birth of Russian imperial baroque
  • 7. The style of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
  • V. The Russian enlightenment
  • 1. "Legislomania" and the architectural utopia of Catherine the Great
  • 2. Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe and the emergence of Russian neoclassicism
  • 3. Antonio Rinaldi and the brief life of Russian rococo
  • 4. Russian pupils of Charles de Wailly : the return of Vasily Bazhenov and Ivan Starov
  • 5. Catherine the Great's architectural programme for Moscow : Vasily Bazhenov, Matvey Kazakov and Nicolas Legrand
  • 6. The revival of antiquity and palladianism : Charles-Louis Clerisseau, Charles Cameron, Giacomo Quarenghi and Nikolay L'vov
  • 7. Town and country in the age of enlightenment
  • 8. Architecture and politics in the last years of the reign of Catherine the Great
  • VI. The European century
  • 1. Neoclassicism, the Russian style and eclecticism
  • 2. Vincenzo Brenna and the architectural fate of Paul I
  • 3. The "Rome prize" style in St Petersburg in the reign of Alexander I
  • 4. Moscow after the fire of 1812 : Iosif Bove and Domenico Gilardi
  • 5. Vying with ancient Rome : the St Petersburg of Karl Rossi, Vasily Stasov and Auguste-Ricard de Montferrand
  • 6. Utopia in neoclassical garb : William Hastie's model planning system
  • 7. From gothic revival to Russian style
  • 8. Alexander II and Alexander III : an era of retrospection
  • 9. Russian art nouveau and neoclassical nostalgia on the eve of revolution
  • VII. The Soviet and post-Soviet eras
  • 1. The architecture of Soviet Russia and the West
  • 2. The Soviet neoclassical revival and its displacement by industrialized architecture
  • 3. Architecture of the post-Soviet era.

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