Title

Main staircase of the Winter Palace, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. Artist: Sheldon Marshall

Caption

Main staircase of the Winter Palace, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The painting on the ceiling is 'Olympus', painted by Gaspare Diziani in the 1750s. The main staircase was restored after the fire of 1837 by Vasily Stasov who largely preserved the original design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.

Date

2011

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Photo Collector

Reference

HRM19E66_386

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,2Mb (1,9Mb) / 18,7in x 12,5in / 5616 x 3744 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings interior indoors looking architecture arts painting country window art museum color colour st petersburg palace Baroque stairway location ceiling century Russia Russian staircase inside interior design 21st century Winter Palace LOOKING UP interior decoration Architectural Feature 19th century Hermitage Museum 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century TGN Rossiya Rep photograph Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli Rastrelli Bartolomeo Francesco Varfolomei Varfolomeevich Rastrelli Sankt Peterburg Vasily Gaspare Baroque Era 2010s The Photo Collector Sheldon Marshall Marshall Sheldon Gaspare Diziani Diziani Vasily Stasov Stasov Vasily Petrovich Vasili Petrovich Vasili Petrovich Stasov Bartolomeo Carlo Gaspare Diziani Vasily Stasov Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli photograph