Longitudinal Section of Great Throne Room (Saint George's Hall), Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
ca. 1776
Medium
Pen and gray ink, brush with gray and red wash
Dimensions
sheet: 14 5/16 x 34 11/16 in. (36.4 x 88.1 cm) image: 14 x 34 3/8 in. (35.6 x 87.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1987
Accession Number
1987.1138.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the grandeur of imperial Russia with Giacomo Quarenghi's *Longitudinal Section of Great Throne Room (Saint George's Hall), Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg* (ca. 1776). This exquisite architectural drawing captures the sweeping interior of one of the Winter Palace's most magnificent spaces, the opulent throne room where tsars held court. Quarenghi, a leading Italian neoclassical architect who later served Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, masterfully renders the hall's vast scale and lavish details—from soaring vaults to ornate columns—in a precise longitudinal section view, offe...