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Photo, Print, Drawing Saint Michael's Monastery.

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Title

  • Saint Michael's Monastery.

Summary

  • This view of Saint Michael's Monastery is from Souvenir of Kiev, an early 20th-century album showing the main sites of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and at that time one of the most important cities of the Russian Empire. The monastery was founded in the late 11th century and dedicated to the Archangel Michael, who later was adopted as the city's patron saint. The cathedral of the monastery was originally constructed in the early 12th century, and its domes were probably the first in Kiev to be gilded, leading to the monastery's nickname: St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. Gilding the domes of major churches became general practice in the Russian Empire. The interior of the cathedral was famous for its frescoes and mosaics. The main stone construction of the monastery buildings dates from the early to mid-18th century and is in Ukrainian baroque style. In 1746, the number of domes atop the cathedral was increased to seven. Shown here is a view of the bell tower, constructed in 1716--19, and the cathedral with Saint Michael's Square in the foreground. The 25 views in Souvenir of Kiev are collotypes, made using a chemically-based printing process widely employed before the invention of offset lithography.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1900 to 1920]

Headings

  • -  Ukraine--Kiev
  • -  1719 to 1920
  • -  Architecture, Baroque
  • -  Bell towers
  • -  Cathedrals
  • -  Monasteries
  • -  Onion domes
  • -  Plazas

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photomechanical print : collotype.
  • -  Original resource at: Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine.
  • -  Content in German and French and Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Souvenir of Kiev

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669067

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Saint Michael's Monastery. Ukraine Kiev, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669067/.

APA citation style:

(1900) Saint Michael's Monastery. Ukraine Kiev, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669067/.

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Saint Michael's Monastery. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669067/>.