Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace
The Small Throne Room of the
Designed in a loose Baroque style, the room holds the throne recessed in an apse before a reredos, supported by two Corinthian columns of jasper, which contains a large canvas dedicated to Peter I with Minerva by Jacopo Amigoni. In the room proper above dado height the walls are lined with crimson velvet embellished with double-headed eagles of silver thread, above which is a shallow vaulted ceiling.
Set in the opposing
Here, during the era of the Tsars,
Architecture
The hall, covered by a cross vault, has a grandiose semi-circular niche (exedra), decorated as a triumphal arch. The soffit of the arch is decorated with a stucco-gilt ornament with the Latin monogram of Peter the Great. In the depth of the exedra, there is a throne place - a portal in the form of an edicule. The portal is flanked by monolithic columns of rivné jasper and topped by a broken pediment. On the white marble panels around the perimeter of the room are bronze gilt monograms of Peter the Great surrounded by laurel leaves. In the centre of each of the 10 velvet panels, 5.3 metres high, are large bronze gilt eagles. The composition of the panels is complemented by smaller eagles (244 in total), monograms, and an ornament containing laurel leaves, branches, berries and bows (a total of 7200 pieces).
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ "The Hermitage 1833", The State Hermitage Museum, archived from the original on 6 February 2005, retrieved 29 September 2008
- ^ Budberg (1969), p. 201
Bibliography
- Budberg, Moura (1969), Great Palaces (The Winter Palace. Pages 194–201), London: Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, ISBN 0-600-01682-X