Ulitsa Zodchevo Rossi
Rossi, Karl
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Alternative Title
Architect Rossi Street
Date
1816-1832Description
View of the street elevation, depicting several repetitive bays distinguished by paired Doric columns; Rossi worked particularly long and hard (1816-1832) on an ensemble that is centred on the Aleksandrinsky (now Pushkin) Theatre , one that incorporated a grand system of new streets and squares. The north side faces Nevsky Prospekt; then comes the theatre’s main façade; behind is Teatral’naya (now Rossi) Street, linking the square on the south side of the theatre with the semicircular Chernyshov (now Lomonosov) Square, which opens towards the Fontanka. The street is lined with identical colonnades and arcades, each building being 22 m (72 ft.) high, 22 m wide and spaced 22 m apart. The perspective draws the eye to the theater at the end of the street. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/16/2009)
Type of Work
street; façadeSubject
architectural exteriors, City planning, Nineteenth century, Neoclassical
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