"Zhurchit voda, protachivaia shliuzy..." Gidrotekhnicheskie sooruzheniia i vodnaia sistema parkov Tsarskogo Sela ("The water murmurs, rippling through the sluices..." Structures for the water system of Tsarskoe Selo's parks)
St. Petersburg: Serebriannyi vek / Tsarskoe Selo, 2021. Sewn cl. The author musters an amazing array of visual documents to show how ponds, canals, rivers and their concomitant architectural and engineering concomitants — bridges, quays, fountains, dams, landings, pavilions — play an integral part in the design of park and palace ensemble at Tsarskoe Selo. Paintings, drawings, prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries together with archival and new photographs demonstrate the intimate connection between aesthetics and technology. A valuable aspect of the monograph is the large number of seldom seen drawings and plans by the architects who worked on the buildings and parks during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which the author uses to present her theme. 454 p., 21 x 20 cm, approx. 800 color and b/w illus., Rus. Item #4060
ISBN: 9785906357809
Price: $89.00