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For the first time in exhibition, 20 pictures by Ivan Bianchi, which give a suggestive portrait of the architectural monuments of St. Petersbourg and its suburbs, shot between 1852 and 1854 and actually the first witness of the city of the Tsars. They are shown on the occasion of its three-hundred-year foundation anniversary.
The historical and artistic value of these pictures assures their Swiss author a special place within the history of photography in Russia and, together with several other documents shown in the exhibition, gives shape to his portrait.
Ivan Bianchi was a well-known water-colourist and a documentarist, who studied the photography techniques abroad. These images prove his great mastery in organising the subject, in using the light as well as the principles of perspective. As a matter of facts, they can be considered such as real views, whose details are shown in an artistic way, conveying to the spectators an attractive spiritual route.