The Cathedral That Set Russia's Church Form
The pale stone refuses decoration. Beneath five cupolas, the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin made an argument later builders found hard to refuse: a church could bind a dispersed faith to one political center, while preserving the memory of older sanctuaries and giving doctrine, ceremony, and rank a visible, repeatable home.This was no imitation. Ivan III called on Aristotele Fioravanti,...More
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