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Red Square

Osip Bove (Russian architect, 1784-1834)
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Alternative Title
Krásnaya plóshchad’
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/94667
Date
1493
Description
East side of the square, showing the Lobnoe Mesto (round platform from which the tsar spoke) in the foreground and the GUM department store in the background; 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
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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