Ippolit Monighetti

Ippolit Monighetti
Ippolit Monighetti
Ипполит Монигетти
	Stroganov Art School,; Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for	Painting, Architecture
Style	Eclecticism

Ippolit Antonovich Monighetti (

Romanov family and was a member and professor by rank of the Imperial Academy of Arts

.

Biography

Monighetti attended the

Stroganov Art School and then studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Alexander Brullov, matriculating in 1839 with a gold medal. His extensive journeys in Egypt and Italy

in the 1840s predetermined his interest in revivalist architecture.

Monighetti started his career as a fashionable architect by designing a cluster of

Tsarskoe Selo, notable those for Princess Yusupov and Prince Bagration. In 1850, he was commissioned by Nicholas I of Russia to stylise a Turkish bath in the Catherine Park as a little mosque. In the 1860s, Monighetti was responsible for refurbishing several rooms of the Catherine Palace

.

On the strength of his success in Tsarskoe Selo, Monighetti was asked by Alexander II to design his summer residence in Livadiya, Crimea. Of his Crimean structures, only the neo-Byzantine church of the Livadia Palace still stands. He also refurbished the imperial yachts Livadia and Derzhava.

In the 1870s, Monighetti designed new interiors for the

Tsarskoe Selo

.