Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Aleksandrinsky Theater

Collection: 
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title: 
Aleksandrinsky Theater
Alternate Title: 
Pushkin Theater
Image View: 
View of the theatre, looking west from the park in Ostrovskiy Square
Creator: 
Karl Rossi (Russian architect, 1775-1849); Stepan Pimenov (Russian sculptor, 1784-1833)
Location: 
site: Saint Petersburg, Rossiya, Russia
Location Note: 
Theatre Square (Teatral?naya ploshchad?; 1816-1820) and Teatral?naya Street (1827-1834), now Rossi Street (Ulitsa Zodchevo Rossi)
GPS: 
+59.931825+30.336222
Date: 
1827-1832 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Russian
Style Period: 
Empire; Neoclassical; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1: 
theater (building)
Classification: 
architecture
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architectural exteriors; music; mythology (Classical); Apollo (Greek deity); quadriga; Corinthian columns
Description: 
Rossi worked particularly long and hard (1816-1832) on an ensemble that is centred on the Aleksandrinsky (now called the A. S. Pushkin Academy Theatre) Theatre , one that incorporated a grand system of new streets and squares. The north side faces Nevsky Prospekt; then comes the theatre?s main façade; behind is Teatral?naya (now Rossi) Street, linking the square on the south side of the theatre with the semicircular Chernyshov (now Lomonosov) Square, which opens towards the Fontanka. Another innovation was the metallic decoration to the ceilings of the Aleksandrinsky Theatre. The portico of the main facade has six Corinthian columns, topped by a sculptural group by Stepan Pimenov, of Apollo, patron of the arts, driving a chariot harnessed to four horses. It is one of several quadrigas designed by Pimenov and the sculptor Vasily Demut-Malinovsky for Rossi buildings in St. Petersburg. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier: 
1A1-RKI-AT-A2
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.