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Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli

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1416: 55: 761: 554: 345: 632: 800: 431: 720: 515: 593: 979: 1308: 676: 932: 179:(1675–1744), a Florentine sculptor and architect who had trained in Rome, was active. Nothing is known about Francesco's Parisian years, but it seems certain that the young man trained and worked in his father's workshop. In 1716, Bartolomeo moved to Saint Petersburg, which became a new Russian capital just a four years before, accompanying his father. His ambition was to combine the latest Italian architectural fashion with traditions of the 474: 737: 532: 407: 366: 390: 1049: 1002: 955: 906: 817: 778: 698: 654: 610: 571: 493: 452: 1256: 1026: 882: 1415: 54: 1131:, including Kirill Kravtsov, Mikhail Degtyarev, Kirill Timofeev, and Sergei Drabkin, is called Rastrelli. The quartet works in Germany and plays music from the Baroque to modern times. 194:
He was appointed to the post of senior court architect in 1730. His works found favour with female monarchs of his time, and he retained this post throughout the reigns of Empresses
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He lived with his father and mother, and married Baroness Maria Anna von Walles, born in Berlin in 1710. She bore three children (one son and two daughters) according to the 1737
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was to become the tallest building in St Petersburg and all of Russia. Elizabeth's death in 1762 prevented Rastrelli from completing this grand design.
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Palace for Chancellor Vorontsov (Vorontsov Palace in St. Petersburg, rebuilt as a military school)
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style. The first important commission came in 1721 when he was asked to build a palace for Prince
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His last years were spent in obscure commerce with Italian art-dealers. He was elected to the
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The second bust of the famous architect was installed on St. Manege Square in St. Petersburg.
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in St. Petersburg where Empress Elizabeth was to spend the rest of her life. The projected
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has speculated that Rastrelli's last (and unfinished) design was for the Neoclassical
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completion and decoration of the interiors of Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg.
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wooden Winter Palace on the Nevsky (destroyed, urban high-rise buildings)
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as an old-fashioned "whipped cream", and the aged architect retired to
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While Rastrelli's son Giuseppe Iacopo died in December 1737 of
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Summer Palace (destroyed, built up by the Engineering Castle)
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was made (directed by Maria Kligman, Lennauchfilm, Russia).
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Smolny Cathedral and Monastery with four churches and cells
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In the period 1744–1760 he built all his famous buildings:
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18th-century Italian architect famed for his work in Russia
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stone Winter Palace (there is, the main building of the
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Rastrelli was born in 1700 in Paris, where his father,
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A bust of Rastrelli was installed in Tsarskoye Selo.
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Rastrelli's last and most ambitious project was the
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Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Rastrelli (surname)

Paris
Kingdom of France
Saint Petersburg
Russian Empire
Russian
Paris
Kingdom of France
Saint Petersburg
Russian Empire
Russia
Baroque
Winter Palace
Saint Petersburg
Catherine Palace
Tsarskoye Selo
Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Muscovite Baroque
Demetre Cantemir
Moldavia
Anna
Elizabeth
Smolny Convent
bell-tower
Catherine II
Baroque architecture
Courland

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