{Chaos* in the Cathedral}[5th March 1991]

[Redbook8:302-306][19910305:2240]{Chaos* in the Cathedral}[5th March 1991]

19910305.2240

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{‘}In [the Cathedral of] St. Basil [(Vasily) the Blessed (the Pokvovsky Cathedral) in Red Square in Moscow (1554-60) the Western academic architectural concepts, based on rational, manifest harmony, were ignored; the structure, with no easily readable design and a profusion of disparate colourful exterior decoration, is uniquely medieval Russian in content and form, in technique, decoration and feeling. St Basil, like its predecessors the churches at Kolomenskoye and Dyakovo, embodies the characteristic features of the wood churches of northern Russia translated into masonry.’

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*[Presumably a (later) reference to correlations such as those discussed the entry referred to in fn=** (below)]

**{cf IX. [[Redbook9:227-229][19910501:08nn#]High Renaissance in Italy (1495-1520[ce][1st May 1991],] 228-229}

***E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 13:980

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