Cameron
Russia
Following his publication of the Description of the Baths of the Romans
Explained (1772), Catherine the Great commissioned Cameron to design an
extension to the Tsarskoe Selo Palace. The existing rococo design did
not conform with Catherine's taste for neoclassical architecture.
Other commissions followed and Cameron became one of the foremost neoclassical
architects of his age. It has been argued that his work is comparable
to that of Adam. The rooms illustrated here show the so-called Agate Pavilion.
Cameron's biographer, Isobel Rae, observes that this pavilion with
its Baths below was ‘the peak to which all the arduous fieldwork
in Rome, the drawing and the measuring ... had led.'
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| Detail. Charles Cameron, c. 1740-1812; architectural drawings and photographs from the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad and Architectural Museum, Moscow… Arts Council, 1967? | |
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