Adam Menelas
(Redirigé depuis Adam Menelaws)
Adam Menelas (ou Adam Menelaws, Адам Адамович Менелас) est un architecte écossais, qui fit carrière dans la Russie des tsars. Né entre 1748 et 1756, probablement à Édimbourg, il meurt le à Saint-Pétersbourg.
Biographie
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Bibliographie
modifier- Colvin, Howard (1995) A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. Yale University Press. (ISBN 0-300-06091-2)
- Anthony Glenn Cross, « In Cameron's Shadow: Adam Menelaws, Stonemason turned architect », Scottish Slavonic Review, , p. 7–21
- Cross, Anthony Glenn, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-century Russia, Cambridge University Press, (ISBN 0-521-55293-1)
- Hayden, Peter, Russian Parks and Gardens, Frances Lincoln, (ISBN 0-7112-2430-7)
- (ru) Kuznetsov, S. O., « Adam Menelas na rossiyskoy zemle (Адам Менелас на российской земле. Возможные пути интерпретации творчества архитектора императора Николая I) », The Philosophical Age. Almanac 6. Russia at the Time of Nicholas I: Science, Politics, Enlightenment. Ed. by T. Khartanovich, M. Mikeshin. St. Petersburg, 1998,
- Dmitry Shvidkovsky, « Architect to three emperors. Adam Menelas in Russia », Apollo, vol. 135, , p. 36–41
- Shvidkovsky, Dmitry, The Empress & the Architect: British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great, Yale University Press, (ISBN 0-300-06564-7) (biography of Charles Cameron)