title: Reliefs of the Summer Palace: An Early Onset of Russian Antiquity
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metadata.value: Korolev, Alexander V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Pozdnev, Michael M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T13:28:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T13:28:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Korolev A. V., Pozdnev M. M. Reliefs of the Summer Palace: An Early Onset of Russian Antiquity. Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (2), 292–321.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23876
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Summer Palace, a ship-like realisation of Peter the Great’s high aspirations in fields both
  mundane and aesthetic, wears an admirably preserved and well-maintained girdle of twentyeight
  bas-reliefs and one haute-relief crowning the entrance. Themed mostly around Ovid’s
  Metamorphoses, they are both propagandistic allegories and reflections on the private life of
  the incumbent. The accumulation of traditional motives is handled with a freedom betraying a lack of thoroughness in representation as well as a desire for all things classical. The reliefs
  thus appear to be neither an unfinished piece by the great Andreas Schlüter nor an accurate
  reproduction of well-known artefacts crafted by his continuers (Braunstein, Mattarnowi, or
  even Le Blond, et al.) and marred beyond recognition by clumsy handiwork on the home turf,
  but an early attempt of domestic art to think Classics while going under its own steam in their
  execution. The living force behind these pieces was, evidently, Peter the Great himself: the inventiveness
  of composition uninhibited by poor execution, the introduction of recurrent seafaring
  (sea is an omnipresent background in reliefs even when the plot borrowed from Ovid
  is definitely terrestrial) and amatory motifs along with a close unity of literary and allegoric,
  intimately personal and statesmanlike, point in his direction. The engravings by Giovanni
  Andrea Maglioli on which (as Renate Kroll has shown) five relieves are modelled also correlate
  with Ovid representing the amorous Neptune transformed in various sea beasts. However,
  the majority of plots and artistic decisions prove to be sourced in a set of 226 engravings by
  Charles Le Brun originally accompanying a free verse translation of the Metamorphoses by
  Isaac de Berserade. The later copy of this work spotted by Peter either in Holland during the
  Great Embassy (1697–1698) or among the books of his European friends at home and finally
  reproduced in Petersburg in 1722 delivered the first and, admirably, never quite so full plastic
  representation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Russia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-012-42005.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sommer Palace
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Peter the Great
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reception of antiquity in Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Reliefs of the Summer Palace: An Early Onset of Russian Antiquity
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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