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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Saint Petersburg, Rossiya, Russiaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1819-1835 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRossi, Karlen_US
dc.date1819-1835en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-18T19:50:53Z
dc.date.available2013-01-18T19:50:53Z
dc.date.issued1819-1835en_US
dc.identifier185411en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1667en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/92636
dc.descriptionThe south wing, side view; The task of designing a palace for Alexander I’s brother, Mikhail Pavlovich (1798-1849), was for Rossi an occasion for solving a grandiose urban planning problem (1819-1835). The Michael Palace (now the Russian Museum) was conceived as the main link in a large city ensemble. The final version of the plan entailed the creation of a large square in front of the palace as a focus for the whole area. The square was linked to Nevsky Prospekt, the main avenue in St Petersburg, by the new Mikhaylovskaya Street. Rossi joined canals and streets where Nevsky Prospekt crosses the Fontanka Canal in order to give the palace an exit on to the Neva through the Marsovoe Pole (Field of Mars). He designed the façades for Inzhenernaya, Ital’yanskaya and Mikhaylovskaya streets and Mikhaylovskaya Square, which made up the ensemble, using gigantic architectural motifs, which masked variously shaped areas and which were then developed as buildings with different functions. The dominance of the pedimented portico on the Mikhaylovsky Palace’s main façade, in the centre of a long block between short projecting wings, is largely neutralized by the attached columns to either side. The order of the attached columns is the same as that on the colonnade of the portico. The result is like a huge portico spread across the centre of the façade. Thus the longitudinal axis dominates, subordinating the palace to the space of the square spread out in front of it, accentuating not the depth but the linked form of the composition. There were also outstanding innovations in the layout. The magnificently decorated main staircase is central to the interior. It was opened as the Russian Museum in 1898 by Nicholas II. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 1/16/2009)en_US
dc.format.mediumstucco; stone; bricken_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectRomanov, House ofen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.titleMikhailovsky Palaceen_US
dc.title.alternativeMikhaylovskiy dvoretsen_US
dc.title.alternativeRussian Museumen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-RKI-MP-B2en_US
vra.culturalContextRussianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypepalaceen_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displayKarl Rossi (Russian architect, 1775-1849)en_US


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