page_title: Petrine Baroque
section_title: Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
hierarchical_section_title: Petrine Baroque / Notable architects / Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
context_page_description: Petrine Baroque is a style of 17th and 18th century Baroque architecture and decoration favoured by Peter the Great and employed to design buildings in the newly founded Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, under this monarch and his immediate successors.
  Different from contemporary Naryshkin Baroque, favoured in Moscow, the Petrine Baroque represented a dramatic departure from Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium. Its chief practitioners - Domenico Trezzini, Andreas Schlüter, and Mikhail Zemtsov - drew inspiration from a rather modest Dutch, Danish, and Swedish architecture of the time.
caption: Hermitage Pavilion by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
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