New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 60 (2014)
Nikolayeva M. V., Mikhailova M. B., Eskin Y. M.
New Documents regarding the Biography of Architect Giacomo Quarenghi
The work is devoted to a little-known episode in the life of Italian architect Giacomo Antonio Quarenghi, employed by the Russian government — his joining the Maltese Order in 1800. It became possible to study this issue owing to a set of documents titled “Proof of Nobleman Iakov Guarengi”, discovered in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, which include the master’s birth certificate, documents concerning the genealogy of the Quarenghi Family beginning in 1303 and other materials, copies of which have arrived from Bergamo. Of particular interest is a color drawing of the family arms which was probably made by G. Quarenghi himself. At that period of his life the master was responsible for creating two religious buildings (1798–1800) in the palace of M. I. Vorontsov, vice-chancellor of the Russian Empire, in Sadovaya Street. One was an Orthodox Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and the other — a Catholic church in honor of the same saint, the so-called Maltese Chapel, which is considered to be one of the most remarkable works by Quarenghi.
Keywords
Architect Giacomo Quarenghi, Maltese Order, Bergamo archive documents.
Nikolayeva Maria Valentinovna
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher, NIITIAG RAASN; Senior Researcher, Ancient Russian Art Department, Scientific and Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts.
E-mail: m-nikol@yandex.ru
Mikhailova Mariya Borisovna
Candidate of Art History, Leading Researcher, Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning (NIITIAG).
Eskin Yuriy Moiseevich
Deputy Director, Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.
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