Gostinyi Dvor

Vallin de La Mothe, Jean-Baptiste Michel; Rastrelli, Bartolomeo Francesco
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Great Bazaar [arcade]
Gostinyy Dvor
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/96560
Date
1758-1785
Description
View of the elevation on Nevskiy Prospekt; In 1761 Vallen de la Motte took over the design of the Gostinyy Dvor (1758-1785) in St. Petersburg, a trading market of 200 shops with a central courtyard, which had been started by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli. Vallen de la Motte achieved a clarity of concept and rationality that dispensed with Rastrelli’s planned Rococo decoration; only the handsome composition of the rounded corners hints at the Baroque. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 1/15/2009)
Type of Work
department store; shopping arcade
Subject
architectural exteriors, business, commerce and trade, Neoclassical, Eighteenth century
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