Abstract
The article is devoted to Dormition Cathedral in the town of Dmitrov, a very significant architectural site in terms of Italian influence of the 16th century. The clarity and directness of the spatial system and of the décor, certain features different from the Archangel Cathedral and many other early Russian buildings in the “Italian style”, can be regarded as proof of an Italian architect’s participation in this project. The formal and stylistic features of the building are closely connected with the ideological and political circumstances of its construction. In order to date it correctly, we must have a full knowledge of how the “Italian manner” in Russian architecture spread in the first quarter of the 16th century. In the present article, we can only venture to suggest that it simultaneously embodies the beginning and one of the peak achievements of this trend, executed by a master for whom order was not just a model to be reproduced, but almost his “native language”.
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