{Baroque Architecture [continued (25)]}[10th May 1991]

[Redbook9:314][19910510:0904y]{Baroque Architecture [continued (25)]}[10th May 1991]

19910510:0904

[continued]

‘Russia. The Baroque appeared in Russia towards the end of the 17th century. The Russians imaginatively transformed its modes into a clearly expressed national style that became known as the Naryshkin Baroque, a delightful example of which is the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin at Fili (1693[ce]) on the estate of Boyarin Naryshkin, whose name had become identified with this phase of the Russian Baroque.

‘Western Europeans brought the prevailing Baroque styles characteristic of their own countries, but the very different artistic and physical settings of St Petersburg produced a new expression, embodying Russia's peculiar sense of form, scale, colour, and choice of materials. The transformed Baroque eventually spread all over Russia and, with its vast register of variations, developed many regional idioms.’

*

‘The Rococo in Russia flourished in St Petersburg under the protection of Peter I & Elizabeth.’

*

The point of this is to emphasize that C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthesis] describes broad movements & principles, subject to local expression (or interference).

* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13: 1019]

**[Emphasis presumably ref ts journal entry before last previous ts journal entry]

[continued]

[PostedBlogger27for28082025]