Red Square
Bove, Osip

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Alternative Title
Krásnaya plóshchad’
Date
1493Description
View looking north, with the GUM department store right, the Historical Museum center, and the Kremlin walls left; Bove’s talent as an urban planner was revealed most fully in his work in developing the centre of Moscow, a homogeneous system of squares that connected with the historic centre, the Kremlin, which retained its predominant importance. By rebuilding the Trading Rows (1814-15; destr. 1895) in Red Square, Bove brilliantly solved the problem of including this classical building in the historically evolved ensemble of the ancient square bordered by the fortified walls of the Kremlin. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/22/2009)
Type of Work
square (open space)Subject
architectural exteriors, cityscapes, military, war, rulers and leaders, Sixteenth century
Rights
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