St. Petersburg: Kniga, 2008. sewn cl. The author uses many first sources to reexamine the extraordinary history of a city that arose rapidly and within a few decades had some of the finest buildings and urban vistas in Europe. Studying contemporary accounts of planning and construction, he emphasizes architectural history;..... More
St. Petersburg: Levsha, 2018. Sewn cl. Quarenghi trained in Rome in the 1760s, and his first designs in Italy were jibed with a light elegant form of Neoclassicism. Invited by Catherine the Great to work in St. Petersburg, he spent the rest of his career in Russia shaping some of..... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2007. sewn cl. Besides looking at Trezini’s famous buildings for the new Russian capital, such as the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, the Summer Palace, and the Building of the Twelve Colleges, the author probes the way Trezini’s work on town planning, especially the layout of Vasil’ev..... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2006. Sewn cl. This is the first attempt at a detailed account of the brief life and career of one of the eighteenth-century portrait engraver who recorded in lively engravings the magnates of the St. Petersburg. Using previous histories of eighteenth-century art in German and Russian as..... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2012. sewn cl. The author broaches questions that are essential to recognizing the cultural shift of the Russian imperial period toward the West such as how the interest in Western European art arose and in what ways cultivated members of society from the imperial family to aristocrats..... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2007. Sewn cl. The architects, gardeners, sculptors and woodcarvers, painters, restorers, engravers, and medal designers that came from Germany to work in Russia brought to their Russian patrons and conveyed to their students the techniques of Western European art, the styles current in the West. German collectors..... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2008. Sewn cl. Makhaev's early eighteenth-century watercolors and paintings of Europe's newest captial are valuable as visual documents of the work of the city's first generation of great architects and designers. They are also striking as independent works of art that remind us of the works of..... More