1st Edition
Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North Regional Schools and Traditions (14th - 19th centuries)
By Evgeny Khodakovsky
Copyright 2016
192 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour of the country’s capital cities, this unique phenomenon is regarded as the most distinctive national expression of traditional Russian artistic culture and at the same time as a significant part... Read more
Introduction: Russian Wooden Church Architecture, 1. Archaeological Sources, 2. The Discovery and Study of Russian Wooden Architecture in the 19th–21st centuries, 3. The Technology of Wooden Construction in Rus’, 4. Types of Wooden Church Architecture, 5. Regional Schools and Traditions in the Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North, 6. The Late Period in Russian Wooden Architecture
Biography
Evgeny Khodakovsky is Head of the Department of Russian Art History at St Petersburg State University. He lectures on the history of the art and architecture of the Russian North, Russian mediaeval art, folk art, Norwegian wooden architecture and the history of restoration in Russia and Europe.
