FOUNDING ACTIVITY OF BORIS AND PETER GALITZINE ON THE EXAMPLE OF SELECTED CHURCHES (Dzialalnosc fundacyjna Borysa i Piotra Golicynow na przykladzie wybranych cerkwi)

• Authors: Pospiszil Agnieszka
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Among the innovative and unique churches built on the turn of 17th and 18th century in submoscow manors - four were erected by the brothers Boris (1651/54-1714) and Peter Galitzine (1660-1722). Boris, founded in his estate Dubrovitsy one of the most amazing churches ever built in Russia – the church of the Sign of the Mother of God (1690-1704), composed of four trefoils and three-storeyed tower crowned with metal crown. The exterior is adorned with statues of the apostles, evangelists, doctors of the church and angels. The whole surface is rusticated and covered with ornamental relief. Internal stuccoed decoration is composed of nine horizontal and one vertical zones. The small church of the Sign in Perovo built by Boris' brother, Peter Galitzine, has almost analogical decoration of the attic as in Dubrovitsy, but also had borrowed from the newly rebuild church of the Peter the metropolite in the Vysokopetrovsky monastery in Moscow. The second church erected by Boris Galitzine in Marfino - has some similarities with the Dutch architecture. It is also one of the first Russian examples of using the Palladian motive of the triangular frontispiece supported by four pilasters. Non-surviving church of St. Sergius in Khotminki was, once again, a rare example of rotonda. There were only three rotondas in Russian church architecture of this period (the Cathedral in the New Jerusalem Monastery, and Italianate church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Podmoklovo founded by a Russian ambassador to Poland, prince Dolgorukov, and built between 1713-23). The founders of those buildings were attempting to introduce the new types of central plan to the Orthodox architecture: rotondas, churches composed of: 8 or 12 conchs, Greek cross with inscribed circle or with trifoliate arms. For the first time in the history of Russian architecture such a number of non-canonical, Catholic and even profane iconography was used inside the Orthodox church. The church in Dubrovitsy is also one of the two churches with the exterior statues (the other is again the church in Podmoklovo).

Keywords

EN

BAROQUE ART; GALITZINE PETER & BORIS; IMPERIAL RUSSIA

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ikonotheka
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 189-202
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pospiszil Agnieszka

• Agnieszka Pospiszil, Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Warszawie, Miedzywydzialowa Katedra Historii i Teorii Sztuki, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 5, 00-068 Warszawa, Poland

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09PLAAAA069022