All Resolutions
(Plate 22.)
Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Smithsonian Libraries, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Histoire pittoresque de l'architecture en Russie
- Author(s):
- Kiprijanov, Valerjan A.
- Publisher:
- Moscow, Paris, Saint Petersburg: E. Mellier, Librairie de la cour impériale (Sélim Dufour), W. Gautier, 1864
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of Saint Basil’s Cathedral as seen from slightly above ground level. The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed is a sixteenth-century building standing on the Red Square in Moscow. It was named after an eccentric Orthodox saint of the “holy fool” description, who was buried in the vaults.
The caption reads in the original French: Église de St. Basile le Bienheureux (Vassily Blagénnoy) à Moscou.
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, cathedral, church, color, reference book, religious, Russia
