White Hall of the Winter Palace
The White Hall of the
The hall and adjoining rooms formed the suite of the Tsarevich and Tsarevna, and remained their private rooms after their accession in 1855.
The hall is in a classical style, its vaulted ceiling supported by Corinthian columns crowned by statues representing the arts.
Today, as part of the
Architectural features
The space of the hall is divided into three unequal parts by the pylons projecting from the walls, on which the underpinning arches rest. The pylons are trimmed with paired pilasters of the Corinthian order. The wall plane between the pylons is in turn divided into three parts in Corinthian order by columns topped with a sculpture. The walls of the extreme compartments are dissected by smaller pilasters decorated with a stucco decoration; above them runs a wide band of bas-relief. At the Emperor's notice in the end wall, it was decided not to decorate the apertures with porticoes with columns and a triangular pediment, as Brullov had intended.[1]
The sculptural decoration of the hall includes a round sculpture of female figures above the columns, symbolising various types of art, and bas-relief figures depicting the gods of Olympus:
References
- The State Hermitage Museum Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 23 September 2008. Published by The State Hermitage Museum.