Panoramas (entry)

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Categories / Art/Fine Arts/Exhibition Halls, Galleries, Festivals
PANORAMAS, 1) A genre of fine art. The first panoramic view of St. Petersburg was created by artist A. F. Zubov in 1716. The most famous panoramas include: The Splendid Avenues by artist M. I. Makhaev (1753), Panorama of St. Petersburg by J. A. Atkinson (1805), Panorama of St. Petersburg by А. Tozelli (1817-20), Panorama of Nevsky Prospect by V. S. Sadovnikov with the total length of circa 16 metres (1830; was engraved by I. A. Ivanov and P. O. Ivanov). All the panoramas of the 18th - 19th centuries are valuable sources for studying city planning and construction. 2) A view of a spectacle in the form of a picture (landscape, battle etc.) located in a circle and connected with sham and real objects, moving figures etc. The first spectacular panoramas were brought to St. Petersburg by guest actors at the end of the 18th century. In 1807, a panorama was opened near the Mirror Line of the Merchants' Court, the wooden rotunda Panorama of Paris (artist Steiniger; was located at the corner of Kirpichny Lane and Bolshaya Morskaya Street) existed in 1820-35. The Palermo panorama (artist A. A. Roller; near the building of Mikhailovsky Manege) was opened in 1850, where the Circus of Nero existed in 1909-10, at 100 Nevsky Prospect; today the cinema Coliseum) etc. The panorama Defence of Sevastopol by artist F. A. Rubo was demonstrated on the Field of Mars in 1909. 3) A type of people's entertainment. Small panoramas became a feature of people's festivals at the beginning of the 19th century. Such a panorama consisted of a type of box with a window through which spectators could look. Cheap popular prints, views of cities, landscapes etc. served as pictorial material. A gallery-worker stood near the gallery and told bywords, fables etc. explaining the pictures. These galleries disappeared at the end of the 19th century with the end of Easter and Shrovetide festivals.

References: Петропавловский В. П. Искусство панорам и диорам. Киев, 1965; Алянский Ю. Л. Увеселительные заведения старого Петербурга. СПб., 1996. С. 190-191; Прогулки по Невскому проспекту в первой половине XIX века: Сб. / Сост. А. М. Конечный. СПб., 2002. С. 300-308.

I. A. Bogdanov, Y. N. Kruzhnov. Atkinson John August
Ivanov Igor Alexeevich
Ivanov P.O.
Makhaev Mikhail Ivanovich
Roller Andrey Adamovich
Rubo Franz Alexeevich
Sadovnikov Vasily Semenovich
Steiniger
Tozelli Angelo
Zubov Alexey Fedorovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Kirpichny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 100
The Field of Mars/Saint Petersburg, city
Петропавловский В. П. Искусство панорам н диорам. Киев, 1965
Алянский Ю. Л. Увеселительные заведения старого Петербурга. СПб., 1996
Прогулки по Невскому проспекту в порвой половине XIX века: Сб. / Сост. А. М. Конечный. СПб., 2002 Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor
Manege