Джакомо Кваренги. Архитектор. Художник

Based on a huge number of graphic and text documents drawn from domestic and foreign (Italy, England, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Poland) collections, the book for the first time so widely covers the creative activity of Giacomo Quarenghi as an outstanding architect and talented artist . The Italian period of the architect’s life and his varied, active activities in Russia since 1779 are shown in detail. A large number of illustrations reproduce original drawings, projects and the most important structures implemented according to Quarenghi’s plans in Russia. These are priceless iconographic documents of Russian reality of the late 18th - early 19th centuries. The book is intended for architects and art historians.

Prologue

Chapter 1. Years of youth (1744-1763)

Chapter 2. Search for a creative path and the formation of an architect (1763-1778)

Chapter 3. In Russia (1779-1817)

Chapter 4. Design Method and Creative Collaboration

Chapter 5. Projects and buildings

Trade and financial buildings

Scientific and educational buildings

Hospitals, almshouses

Theater buildings

Military installations

Urban residential buildings

Country palaces and estates

Religious buildings

Park buildings

City gates and triumphal buildings

Artistic interiors

Small forms and objects of applied art

Epilogue

Notes

Main dates in the life and work of Giacomo Quarenghi

Accepted abbreviations

References