Everything about Petrine Baroque totally explained
Petrine Baroque is a name applied by art historians to a style of
Baroque architecture and decoration favoured by
Peter the Great and employed to design buildings in the newly-founded Russian capital,
Saint Petersburg, under this monarch and his immediate successors.
Unlike contemporaneous
Naryshkin Baroque, favoured in
Moscow, the Petrine Baroque represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated
Russian architecture for almost a millennium. Its chief practitioners -
Domenico Trezzini,
Andreas Schlüter, and
Mikhail Zemtsov - drew inspiration from a rather modest Dutch, Danish, and Swedish architecture of the time.
Extant examples of the style in St Petersburg are the
Peter and Paul Cathedral (Trezzini), the
Twelve Colleges (Trezzini), the
Kunstkamera (Zemtsov), (Schlüter),
Menshikov Tower, and
Menshikov Palace (Giovanni Fontana)
The Petrine Baroque structures outside St Petersburg are scarce; they include the
Menshikov Tower in
Moscow and the
Kadriorg Palace in
Tallinn.
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