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Catafalque of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (Side Elevation).
1796 · Pen and gray-black ink, brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite or leadpoint
sheet: 28 1/4 x 23 3/8 in. (71.7 x 59.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Vincenzo Brenna
1745⚠–1820
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- Birth yearArtsy· 85%
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Vincenzo Brenna was an Italian architect and painter who was the house architect of Paul I of Russia. Brenna was hired by Paul and his spouse Maria Fyodorovna as interior decorator in 1781 and by the end of 1780s became the couple's leading architect. Brenna worked on Pavlovsk Palace and Gatchina palaces, rebuilt Saint Isaac's Cathedral, and most notably created Saint Michael's Castle in Saint Petersburg. Most of his architectural works were created concurrently during Paul's brief reign. Soon after Paul was murdered in a palace coup Brenna, renowned for fraud and embezzlement barely tolerated by his late patron, retired and left Russia for an uneventful life in Saxony.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 2mo ago
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