Winter palace

[Josh Wilson]

Looking at a paintings from the mid nineteenth century, we can see that the 
palace was most likely yellow (baring colorblindness, insanity, or some 
strange artistic licence)

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/12/2004/hm12_3_4_1_3.html

And so was the New Hermitage

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/05/hm5_1_21c.html

Josh Wilson
Asst. Director and Gen. Editor
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org
jwilson at sras.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at listserv.cuny.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Winter palace


>> All
>>governmental buildings in Russian Empire, including the Winter Palace were
>>painted in yellow.
>
> That's news to me. I know it was brick red at one point, but I never heard
> of it being yellow. Yellow was the color of classicism in St.Petersburg
> (Rossi, for ex.). I don't recall a single barocco building painted in
> yellow.
>
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