Russian Art - 2 Architecture: Early Muscovite Period
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Historia del Arte:
Land of the Art:
Russian culture is an hybrid generated from habits of many civilizations that shaped this great multicultural state, and it is the result of its development for several centuries, being deeply rooted in the culture of the first eastern slavs.
The Early Muscovite Period goes from 1230 to 1540. The mongols plundered so much the country that even the capital cities couldn't build with stone due to its price till half of the century, except Novgorod and Pskov.
Novgorod
Church of Transfiguration: it is a memorial for Ilya Muromets, that saved the city, and it is in Ilyna street. It has frecoes of byzantine master Theophanes the Greek.
Pskov churches exported its characteristics to Muscovy.
In XIV century the churches in Muscovy are stone fortified churches.
Ascension cathedral of Zvenigorod: built of white stone, with dome. Proportions and harmony. The interior has frescoes of painter Andrei Rubliov.
Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius: it is a fortress. Between 1608 and 1610, 3000 defenders resisted for 16 months against 15000 polishmen. In XIV-XVII centuries it was an important cultural center. Books were written, copied and saved, and worked makers. Due to its history and merits, in XVIII it got the title of Lavra, that means superior monastery.
Sava-Storozhevski monastery: it is near river Moscova, founded by Savva, disciple of St. Sergius Radonezh. Use of white and red color.
At the end of XV century, Muscovy was very powerful. Ivan III the Great invited italian masters from Florence and Venice and they built similar old constructions from Vladimir with italian Renaissance decoration: the cathedrals of Moscow Kremlin.
Dormition cathedral: also called Ascension cathedral, directed by italian architect Aristoteles Fiorovanti from Bologne, that studied the art of Pskov, Novgorod and Vladimir to learn the forms. Here the tsars were enthronized, among other important acts.
Archangel cathedral: nice mix of russian art and italian renaissance art, directed by italian architect Alevisio the New from Venice. This cathedral was the sepulchre of princes and tsars till Peter the Great.
Annunciation cathedral: built by russian alarifes. After a fire in times of Ivan the Terrible it was rebuilt. It was added a porsche called Porsche of Ivan the Terrible, because as he married 4 times, after the 3rd you cannot enter a church.
These cathedrals were imitated in Russia over XVI century.
Novodevichy Monastery: founded by Vasili III, father of Ivan the Terrible, it is a fortress. In its interior is the cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk, from Middle Muscovite Period.
Other constructions
Fortifications of the Kremlin of Moscow: the original wall was built in 1156, and the actual with towers was built in XV century. The tower that appear in the third image is Spasskaya.
Ivan III the Great Belltower: in the center of the Moscow Kremlin is this belltower, unifying all the styles of the place.
Palace of Facets: it is also in the Moscow Kremlin, and it was the feast hall of the tsars.
Episcopal Palace of Suzdal
Uglich Palace
Music: Pólyushko-Pole by Irfan Kaya [Полюшко-Поле]
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