Giacomo Quarenghi (Italian pronunciation:[ˈdʒaːkomokwaˈreŋɡi;-ˈrɛŋɡi]; Russian: Джа́комо Кваре́нги, romanized: Džákomo Kvaréngi, IPA:[ˈdʐakəməkvɐˈrʲenʲɡʲɪ]; 20 or 21 September 1744 – 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1817) was an Italian architect who was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. He brought into vogue an original monumental style, of Palladian inspiration, which was a reference for many architects who worked in Russia as well as the Grand Duchy of Finland.
He has been described as "the last of the great architects of Italy".[1]
^Christopher Marsden. Palmyra of the North. Faber and Faber Limited, 1942. 2nd edition. Page 10.
Quarenghi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Federico Quarenghi (1858–1940), Italian painter GiacomoQuarenghi (1744–1817), Russian...
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architects. The same year, two Italians architects, Giacomo Trombara [it] and GiacomoQuarenghi, arrived at the court of Catherine. Within a few years...
Luise Marie Augusta of Baden. The Neoclassical edifice was planned by GiacomoQuarenghi and built between 1792 and 1796. It was agreed that the architect...
of Catherine the Great to a Palladian[citation needed] design by GiacomoQuarenghi. The crumbling Third Winter Palace of Peter the Great was demolished...
Napoleon. The architect of the original Narva triumphal arch was GiacomoQuarenghi. The program was meant to respond to the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel...
in groups of four. They served as inspiration to Italian architect GiacomoQuarenghi while working on the Raphael loggias in the Hermitage Museum. The...
Napoleon's victories The Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg by GiacomoQuarenghi, built in 1814 to commemorate Russia's victory over Napoleon The Wellington...
elevations and watercolors by GiacomoQuarenghi and an elaborate drawing on Catherine's fan, also based on Quarenghi's drafts. Extremely fond of her grandson...
theatre, built nearby between 1783 and 1787 by the Italian architect GiacomoQuarenghi. In London in 1787, Catherine acquired the collection of sculpture...
"Snuff-box", incorporated white and bright blue glass on the walls. GiacomoQuarenghi designed the Mirror and Silver Rooms in 1789, while Rastrelli's hanging...
Vasily Bazhenov, Vincenzo Brenna, Charles Cameron, Matvey Kazakov, GiacomoQuarenghi, and Ivan Starov. Catherine's palace projects followed the neoclassical...
plan, in the 1780s the shores were embanked in granite by architect GiacomoQuarenghi. The Fontanka Embankment was used as a border of Saint Petersburg...
usurping herself. Catherine's patronage of the architects Starov and GiacomoQuarenghi saw the palace further enlarged and transformed. At this time an opera...
Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by GiacomoQuarenghi, who was a principal architect of the Imperial Russian capital city...
most useful men. Catherine, the Empress of Russia, had her architect GiacomoQuarenghi design Greig's tomb. In 1864, Greigia is a genus of the botanical...
not otherwise on the tourist route. Between 1787-1792 the architect GiacomoQuarenghi constructed a full copy of the loggias, called the Raphael Loggias...
Saint Petersburg. The palace was built in 1783–1795 to a design by GiacomoQuarenghi. There emerged a palace designed according to the principles of Russian...
for trade, whose authorship is attributed to the Italian builder GiacomoQuarenghi. In the war of 1812, however, these buildings were burned down and...
Enlightenment, a period dominated by foreign architects (Charles Cameron, GiacomoQuarenghi, Antonio Rinaldi and others). According to Dmitry Shvidkovsky, in...
became overcrowded, a new indoor market was completed nearby in 1665. GiacomoQuarenghi, the favored architect of Catherine the Great, in 1789 replaced those...
reduced copies of the Dioscuri to Saint Petersburg for his compatriot GiacomoQuarenghi. They were put up in front of the Saint Petersburg Manege six years...
additions occurred in the reign (1801–1825) of Emperor Alexander I, with Quarenghi's construction of the Imperial Cabinet along Nevsky Avenue. The latter...
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