Background
Dmitry Shvidkovsky was born in Moscow. He is the son of a famous historian Oleg Shvidkovsky.
(This is the first book to show the development of Russian...)
This is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russia’s leading architectural historian, departs from the accepted notion that Russian architecture developed independent of outside cultural influences and demonstrates that, to the contrary, the influence of the West extends back to the tenth century and continues into the present. He offers compelling assessments of all the main masterpieces of Russian architecture and frames a radically new architectural history for Russia. The book systematically analyzes Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. Special attention is directed toward decorations based on Byzantine models; the heritage of Italian master builders and carvers; the impact of architects and others sent by Elizabeth I; the formation of the Russian Imperial Baroque; the Enlightenment in Russian art; and 19th- and 20th-century European influences. With over 300 specially commissioned photographs of sites throughout Russia and western Europe, this magnificent book is both beautiful and groundbreaking. This is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russia’s leading architectural historian, departs from the accepted notion that Russian architecture developed independent of outside cultural influences and demonstrates that, to the contrary, the influence of the West extends back to the tenth century and continues into the present. He offers compelling assessments of all the main masterpieces of Russian architecture and frames a radically new architectural history for Russia. The book systematically analyzes Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. Special attention is directed toward decorations based on Byzantine models; the heritage of Italian master builders and carvers; the impact of architects and others sent by Elizabeth I; the formation of the Russian Imperial Baroque; the Enlightenment in Russian art; and 19th- and 20th-century European influences. With over 300 specially commissioned photographs of sites throughout Russia and western Europe, this magnificent book is both beautiful and groundbreaking.
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2007
Dmitry Shvidkovsky was born in Moscow. He is the son of a famous historian Oleg Shvidkovsky.
Shvidkovsky finished Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) - MArchI in 1982.
In 1988 Dmitry Shvidkovsky started his career as an assistant professor in Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy). He became the head of the department at the same university in 1993.
Dmitry served as a vice-president of the Academy from 2001. Six years later he held the post of a rector of Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy).
Shvidkovsky is also the author of the definitive biography of Charles Cameron and a series of essays on contemporary British artists (William Hastie, Adam Menelaws) in Russia and their role in Russian art.
Shvidkovsky is an honorary professor of the St. Petersburg Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture I.E. Repin and Rostov University of Civil Engineering, he is an honorary Doctor of Tokyo University Shibaur, Japan (2017), as well as an honorary professor of Beijing Architectural Institute, China (2012).
Dmitry is also the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Shvidkovsky was awarded State Prize of the Russian Federation and Order of Honour of Russia. He is the author of 400 works on the history of architecture in different languages, including books and articles on the history of Russian architecture and architecture of the Enlightenment in England.
(This is the first book to show the development of Russian...)
2007Dmitry Shvidkovsky is an honorary member of the London Society of Antiquities, the oldest English Academy. Also he is a member of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
