ARTH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Onion Dome, Royal Doors
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Hybrid architecture, sometimes its only baroque in style. Russian bell towers are iconic, taken away the onion dome, very loud. Wall of icons, screen usually made of wood, covered in icons for the viewer to interact with, separates the public and private spaces. Pair of doors, gilded, icons decorate the facade. Cross-in-square plan, geometric plan consisting of five points forming a cross. French term, section of wall that protrudes from the rest of the wall. Human forms, sculpted, hands on head, holding up entablature, arcade or arch, takes the place of a column of pilaster. Most influential baroque style admirer, turned russia towards the. West, in order to compete with the west better, brought french and dutch architects to russia to build his buildings, he thought of style as technology, idealized st petersburg as to how he imagined. Most i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)tial ro(cid:272)o(cid:272)o style ad(cid:373)irer, peter"s second oldest daughter. One of the greatest patrons of rococo in europe, best one in russia.