Arkhitektor Aleksandr Kokorinov (The architect Aleksandr Kokorinov)
Moscow: Akademiia khdozhestv / Progress-Traditsiia, 2013. Sewn cl. The author uses archival documents to trace the career of the architect Alexander Kokorinov (1726-72), who prepared the way for the flourishing of neoclassical architecture in Russia. He achieved fame for his design of the ensemble of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where he taught from its founding in the late 1750s to his death. It was his works and his teaching that shaped the direction of architecture in the second half of the eighteenth-century - among his students were such major figures in the history of Russian architecture as Vasilii Bazhenov and Ivan Starov. 190 p., 25 cm, approx. 50 b/w illus., Rus. Item #1365
ISBN: 9785898262051
Price: $28.00