| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Peterhof (Petrodvorets, Rossiya, Russia) | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1715-1724 (creation); 1745-1763 (alteration) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Le Blond, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre | en_US |
| dc.creator | Rastrelli, Bartolomeo Francesco | en_US |
| dc.creator | Vallin de La Mothe, Jean-Baptiste Michel | en_US |
| dc.creator | Fel'ten, Yury | en_US |
| dc.date | 1715-1724 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-29T17:20:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-29T17:20:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1715-1724 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 188142 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1693 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/96678 | |
| dc.description | North elevation of the west pavilion, detail showing windows; n 1715-1724 a two-storey palace was built with a central section flanked by two projecting bays; the original architect is unknown, but further construction followed the designs of Le Blond and Niccolò Michetti. Empress Elizabeth (reigned 1741-1762) commissioned Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli to enlarge the palace. Between 1745 and 1755 he raised the building to three storeys and added three-storey wings facing the Upper Park, with galleries ending in two domed pavilions. Of the early 18th-century interiors, the Tsar’s study, with oak panelling in Rococo style by Nicolas Pineau, remains unchanged, as does the oak staircase. Rastrelli designed five staterooms and a series of reception-rooms, which were sumptuously decorated with gilded wood-carving, ceilings painted by Bartolomeo Tarsia, Ivan Vishnyakov and others, mirrors, decorative parquet floors, vases and statues. In 1763 the Chinese lobbies were decorated to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallen de la Motte, with lacquered panels and paintings by A. Perizinotti and the brothers Aleksey Bel’sky (1730-1796) and Ivan Bel’sky (1719-1799). In the second half of the 18th century the state Chesma Hall, Throne Room, White Dining-room and other ceremonial reception-rooms were reworked in a Neo-classical style by Yury Fel’ten and Vallen de la Motte. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/17/2009) | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | rulers and leaders | en_US |
| dc.subject | Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Baroque | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eighteenth century | en_US |
| dc.title | Peterhof; Grand Palace | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Peterhof; Great Palace | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-R-SP-P-1-B11 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Russian | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) carving (processes) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | palace | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (Italian architect, 1700-1771); Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de La Mothe (French architect, 1729-1800); Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond (French architect, 1679-1719); Yury Fel'ten (Russian architect, ca. 1730-1801) | en_US |
