General Staff of the Russian Army Building

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Title	General Staff of the Russian Army Building
Alternate Title	General Staff Building
View	View within the double arch looking north towards the Alexander Column with the Hermitage beyond
Work Type	buildings public buildings ministries built works monuments triumphal arches (memorial arches)
Style/Period	Empire Neoclassical Nineteenth century
Creator Name	Rossi, Karl Ivanovich, 1775-1849
Creator Nationality	Russian
Contributors to Project	Pimenov, Stepan, 1784-1833
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors military war City planning quadriga
Subject.image	arch wide angle lens view
Country	Russia
City	Saint Petersburg
State/Province	Rossiya
Location.Notes	Palace Square
Architectural Material	stone; stucco
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	1819-1829 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Subject Information	In planning the building for the General Staff of the Russian Army and the ministry on Palace Square (1819-1829), and keeping the curved shape of the square, built to a plan by Yury Felten, Rossi created an irregularly shaped, curved open space, devising the faades of the buildings so that the form of the splendid square became dominant. In contrast to Zakharov, who had planned the Admiralty near by so as to avoid the impression of flatness and to impart a sense of separateness and volume to the very long faade, Rossi emphasized the flatness of the faade that follows the curved edges of the square. A triumphal arch [topped with a quadriga by Pimenov and Demut-Malinovsky] --composed of two arches set at an angle to each other to conceal a sharp bend in Bolshaya Morskaya Street--forms a magnificent entrance to the Palace Square, unifies the whole ensemble and links the square and palace, as envisaged by Vasily Bazhenov and Ivan Starov. The eastern wing of the Staff Building now houses part of the Hermitage Museum.
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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