Olga's Gallery
Giacomo Quarenghi
(1744-1817)
Biography
Quarenghi was born in Bergamo, where he studied painting under G. Reggi, a student of Tiepolo, and P. Bonomini. While in Rome he became a student of Anton Raphael Mengs. In Rome Quarenghi got interested in architecture and studied it with S. Poudo. Quarenghi worked fruitfully in Italy and England. He was thirty when at the end of 1779 on the invitation of Catherine II, he came to Russia with his family. Read Giacomo Quarenghi's Full Biography
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View of Kolomenskoe. 1795. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper. 42.7 x 113 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. 
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View of Kolomenskoe. Detail. 1795. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper. 42.7 x 113 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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View of Kolomenskoe. Detail. 1795. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper. 42.7 x 113 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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Mikhailovsky Castle. c.1801. Watercolor, ink, pen-and-ink line. 46 x 63.3 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Design of the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg. . Ink on paper, 17.4 x 28.7 cm. The Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Design of a Triumphal Arch. . Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper, 18.5 x 30.2 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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