Antonio Rinaldi

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Antonio Rinaldi

Antonio Rinaldi (?. 1710 - April 10 1794) was an Italian

Italy

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architect

Architect

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, trained by Luigi Vanvitelli

Luigi Vanvitelli

Luigi Vanvitelli was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent eighteenth-century architect of Italy, he practiced a sober classicizing academy Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism....
, who worked mainly in Russia

Russia

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In 1751, during a trip to England

England

Kirill Razumovsky

Count Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky was a Ukraine Cossack who served as the last Hetman Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks between 1750 and 1764....
to decorate his residences in Ukraine

Ukraine

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Antonio Rinaldi (?. 1710 - April 10 1794) was an Italian

Italy

Architect

Luigi Vanvitelli

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

In 1751, during a trip to England

England

Kirill Razumovsky

Count Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky was a Ukraine Cossack who served as the last Hetman Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks between 1750 and 1764....
to decorate his residences in Ukraine

Ukraine

Pochep

Pochep is a types of settlements in Russia in Bryansk Oblast of Russia, 84 km south-west of Bryansk. Population: 17,064 .History ...
near Bryansk

Bryansk

Bryansk is a types of settlements in Russia in Russia, located 379 km southwest from Moscow. It is the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast....
and the Catherine Cathedral in Yamburg, now Kingisepp

Kingisepp

Kingisepp , formerly Yamburg and Jama , is a Types of inhabited localities in Russia in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies along the Luga River, 137 km west of Saint Petersburg, 20 km east of Narva, and 49 km south of the Gulf of Finland....
near St Petersburg (illustrated, right), where Rinaldi successfully expressed the domed, centrally-planned form required by traditional Russian Orthodox practice in a confident Italian Late Baroque vocabulary.

His first important secular commission was the Novoznamenka chateau

Château

A ch?teau is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally - and still most frequently - in French language-speaking regions....
of Chancellor Woronzow

Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov

Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov was a Russian statesman and diplomat, who laid foundations for the fortunes of the Vorontsov family.At the age of fourteen, Vorontsov was appointed a valet de chambre at the court of the Tsar Elizabeth of Russia, whom he materially assisted during the famous coup d'etat of December 6, 1741, when she m...
. In 1754, he was appointed chief architect of the young court, i.e., the future Peter III

Peter III of Russia

Peter III was Emperor of Russian Empire for six months in 1762. According to most historians, he was mentally immature and very pro-Prussian, which made him an unpopular leader....
and Catherine II

Catherine II of Russia

Catherine II, called Catherine the Great .The Russian empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. Under her direct auspices the Russian Empire expanded, improved in its administration, and underwent a dramatic policy of Westernization....
, who resided at Oranienbaum

Oranienbaum, Russia

Oranienbaum is a Russian royal residence, located on the Gulf of Finland west of Saint Petersburg. The Palace ensemble and the city center are World Heritage Sites....
. In that town he executed his best-known baroque

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
designs: the Palace of Peter III (1758-60), the sumptuously decorated Chinese Palace (1762-68), and the Ice-Sliding Pavilion (1762-74).

In the 1770s, Rinaldi served as the main architect of Count Orlov, who was Catherine's prime favourite and the most powerful man in the country. During this period he built two grandiose Neoclassical

Neoclassicism

Marble Palace

Marble Palace or Mramornyi Dvorets was one of the first Neoclassical architecture palaces in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is situated between the Field of Mars and Palace Quay, slightly to the east from Winter Palace....
on the Palace Embankment

Palace Embankment

The Palace Embankment or Palace Quay is a street along the Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg which contains the complex of the Hermitage Museum buildings, including the Winter Palace, the Hermitage Theatre, the Marble Palace and the Summer Garden....
in St Petersburg and the roomy Gatchina Castle

Gatchina

Gatchina is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located 45 km south of Saint Petersburg by the road leading to Pskov....
, which was subsequently acquired for Emperor Paul and partly remodeled. He also designed for Orlov several monuments in Tsarskoe Selo, notably the Orlov Gates, Kagul Obelisk

Kagul Obelisk

The Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo is one of several such structures erected on behest of Catherine II of Russia in 1772 to commemorate Pyotr Rumyantsev's victory in the Battle of Kagul....
and the Chesma Column. He completed the work started by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe

Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe

Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe was a French architect whose major career was spent in Saint Petersburg, where he became court architect to Catherine II.....
on the Catholic Church of St. Catherine

Catholic Church of St. Catherine

The Catholic Church of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg is one of the oldest Catholic churches in all of Russia. It is part of the Archdiocese of Moscow headed by Excellency Monsignor Paolo Pezzi....
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Rinaldi's last works represent a continuous transition from the dazzling rococo

Rococo

Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings....
of interiors to the reserved and clear-cut treatment of facades characteristic of Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct Cultural movement in the Decorative art and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ....
. These include two St Petersburg cathedrals, one dedicated to St Isaac the Dalmatian and subsequently demolished to make way for the present Empire-style structure, and the other, dedicated to Prince Vladimir and still standing.

In 1784, the old master resigned his posts on account of bad health and returned to Italy. He died in Rome

Rome

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in 1794.