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Title	Peterhof: Grand Palace
Alternate Title	Peterhof: Great Palace
View	View of a throne off the Throne Room
Work Type	buildings houses official residences palaces
Style/Period	Baroque Eighteenth century
Creator Name	Le Blond, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, 1679-1719
Creator Nationality	French
Contributors to Project	Rastrelli, Varfolomei Varfolomeevich, ca. 1700-1771; Vallin de la Mothe, Jean-Baptiste Michel, 1729-1800; Fel'ten, IUrii Matveevich, 1730-1801
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors rulers and leaders Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725
Country	Russia
City	Petrodvorets
State/Province	Rossiya
Technique	carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Dates	1715-1724 (creation); 1745-1763 (alteration)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Subject Information	In 1715-1724 a two-storey palace was built with a central section flanked by two projecting bays; the original architect is unknown, but further construction followed the designs of Le Blond and Niccol Michetti. Empress Elizabeth (reigned 1741-1762) commissioned Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli to enlarge the palace. Between 1745 and 1755 he raised the building to three storeys and added three-storey wings facing the Upper Park, with galleries ending in two domed pavilions. Of the early 18th-century interiors, the Tsars study, with oak panelling in Rococo style by Nicolas Pineau, remains unchanged, as does the oak staircase. Rastrelli designed five staterooms and a series of reception-rooms, which were sumptuously decorated with gilded wood-carving, ceilings painted by Bartolomeo Tarsia, Ivan Vishnyakov and others, mirrors, decorative parquet floors, vases and statues. In 1763 the Chinese lobbies were decorated to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallen de la Motte, with lacquered panels and paintings by A. Perizinotti and the brothers Aleksey Belsky (1730-1796) and Ivan Belsky (1719-1799). In the second half of the 18th century the state Chesma Hall, Throne Room, White Dining-room and other ceremonial reception-rooms were reworked in a Neo-classical style by Yury Felten and Vallen de la Motte.
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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