The monographic study is dedicated to the architect, graphic artist, and memoirist Andrei Beloborodov (Beloborodoff Andrea) [1886, Tula - 1965, Rome]. Russian follower of Palladio, he created a frontispiece for the magazine Apollo, perhaps the best artistic organ of the early 20th century. His graduation architectural project was “a university with four faculties in the capital”. As the initial model of space for the project, he chose Raphael's fresco "School of Athens" from the Vatican museums. Once in exile, he set himself the goal of creating "a cycle of images of Italy, its paesaggio architettonico". In the late 1930s. Beloborodov began to exhibit works of his new cycle: abandoned grandiose cities, the arch of Emperor Constantine two-thirds under water, sunken temples against the background of mountains, fragments and debris of former beauty and luxury that went under water or into nothing. The series is called "Grande Isola”, and this symbolic name was associated with Atlantis that sank under the water, an irreversibly lost beautiful world – his personal “emigrant myth”.
“Metafiziceskij palladianez” Andrej Beloborodov
A. Chichkine
2019-01-01
Abstract
The monographic study is dedicated to the architect, graphic artist, and memoirist Andrei Beloborodov (Beloborodoff Andrea) [1886, Tula - 1965, Rome]. Russian follower of Palladio, he created a frontispiece for the magazine Apollo, perhaps the best artistic organ of the early 20th century. His graduation architectural project was “a university with four faculties in the capital”. As the initial model of space for the project, he chose Raphael's fresco "School of Athens" from the Vatican museums. Once in exile, he set himself the goal of creating "a cycle of images of Italy, its paesaggio architettonico". In the late 1930s. Beloborodov began to exhibit works of his new cycle: abandoned grandiose cities, the arch of Emperor Constantine two-thirds under water, sunken temples against the background of mountains, fragments and debris of former beauty and luxury that went under water or into nothing. The series is called "Grande Isola”, and this symbolic name was associated with Atlantis that sank under the water, an irreversibly lost beautiful world – his personal “emigrant myth”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
