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British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great
出版Yale University Press, 1996-01-01
主題Architecture / Criticism
ISBN97803000656400300065647
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FEN-ak8kL1cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Summoned to Russia by Catherine the Great, Scottish architect Charles Cameron set sail from London in August 1779. Though he had as yet built nothing - his reputation was based almost entirely on authorship of a book on the baths of ancient Rome - Cameron became Architect to Her Imperial Majesty. Under the empress's patronage, Cameron turned the palaces and parks at Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk outside St. Petersburg into extravagant classical domains on the English model. This book tells how Catherine's tastes and habits, combined with Cameron's initiative and imagination, brought about some of the most dazzling and original large-scale architectural creations of the eighteenth century. It also relates the little-known story of the many British architects, craftsmen, and gardeners who came to Russia to work with Cameron and stayed to help transform towns, villages, and buildings throughout the country.