Five-domed Churches of the ‘Octagon-on-cube’ Type: On the Question of Combination of Traditional and Innovative Forms in the Russian Church Architecture of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.168How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Russian five-domed churches; The octagon-on-cube type; Sacred architecture
- Abstract
The article is centered at the important problem of the combination of traditional and innovative spatial compositions in Russian architecture under the reign of Tsar Peter the Great and their further development. The composition ‘octagon-on-cube’ appeared in the stone church architecture of Moscow at the end of the 17th century and was enrooted in the assortment of architectural forms. As early as in the beginning of the 18th century, it was connected with the traditional five-domed composition. As a result, a new version of the type ‘octagon-on-cube’ – five-headed ‘octagon-on-cube’ – was shaped. The new composition was kept for a long period of time – in the 18th and in the 19th centuries as well – becoming an integral part of various stylistic changes. This phenomenon demonstrates the exceptional importance of preserving the local tradition in the Russian sacred architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Natalia Merzlyutina PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/25 TI - Five-domed Churches of the ‘Octagon-on-cube’ Type: On the Question of Combination of Traditional and Innovative Forms in the Russian Church Architecture of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 188 EP - 196 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211125.168 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.168 ID - Merzlyutina2021 ER -