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The architecture of Russia refers to the architecture of modern Russia as well as the architecture of both the original Kievan Rus', the Russian principalities, and Imperial Russia. Due to the geographical size of modern and Imperial Russia, it typically refers to architecture built in European Russia, as well as European influenced ...
The courtyard of the castle Wawel in Kraków. Polish Renaissance architecture is divided into three periods: The First period (1500–1550), is the so-called "Italian". Most of Renaissance buildings built at this time were by Italian architects, mainly from Florence including Francesco Fiorentino and Bartolomeo Berrecci.
The Renaissance architecture coexisted with the Gothic style in Bohemia and Moravia until the late 16th century (e. g. the residential part of a palace was built in the modern Renaissance style but its chapel was designed with Gothic elements). The façades of Czech Renaissance buildings were often decorated with sgraffito (figural or ornamental).
Moscow Baroque (from 1680s to 1700s), also known as Naryshkin Baroque, is a transitional period from Russian patterned (Russian узорчье) to full-fledged Baroque. It preserves many structural and decorative elements of architecture of Kievan Rus', reworked under the influence of the Baroque in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
[8] The cathedral foreshadowed the climax of Russian national architecture in the 17th century, [9] and it is considered as a prime example of Russian Renaissance architecture. [ 10 ] As part of the program of state atheism , the church was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union 's antireligious campaigns ...
Neoclassical architecture developed in many Russian cities, first of all St. Petersburg, which was undergoing its transformation into a modern capital throughout the reign of Catherine II. Portrait of Catherine II by Dmitry Levitsky , early 1780s Antonio Rinaldi , the pavilion in Oranienbaum Moscow Orphanage.
Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation .
Medieval Russian architecture (1 C, 2 P) Modernist architecture in Russia (2 C, 22 P) ... Renaissance Revival architecture in Russia (1 C, 3 P)