Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Neo-Moorish Russian Architecture and Interiors 1830–1917
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Author: Katrin Kaufmann
Little is known of Russian architects’ in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, analyses 19th-century Orientalising buildings and interiors in St. Petersburg and traces the routes by which the formal vocabulary of the Alhambra reached Russia from Spain. Incorporating essential aspects of Russian cultural history and 19th-century European notions of the Orient, it shows that Russian architects and the Imperial Academy of Arts were among the pioneers of the Moorish Revival.
ISBN 9783110710656. De Gruyter. hb. 368 pages. 290 colour ills. 28 x 22 cm.
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Little is known of Russian architects’ in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, analyses 19th-century Orientalising buildings and interiors in St. Petersburg and traces the routes by which the formal vocabulary of the Alhambra reached Russia from Spain. Incorporating essential aspects of Russian cultural history and 19th-century European notions of the Orient, it shows that Russian architects and the Imperial Academy of Arts were among the pioneers of the Moorish Revival.
ISBN 9783110710656. De Gruyter. hb. 368 pages. 290 colour ills. 28 x 22 cm.
available