Thomas de Thomon Jean Francois (Thomas de Thomon Jean Francois)

April 1, 1760 (Berne) - August 23, 1813 (St. Petersburg)

architect, draftsman, engraver

graduated from the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris (1780). The draft of the cathedral received II award and the right to a pensioner's trip to Italy, where he continued his education at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome. Traveled to Naples and Florence. In 1788-1789 he worked at the Royal Academy in Fontainebleau as a numismatist and an architect. In 1790-1791 went to Italy (Venice), and Austria. In the early 1790's led the restructuring of the palace of the princes Lubomirski in Łańcut (Poland), in 1794-1798 he served at the court of Count M. Esterhazy in Hungary.

In 1799 at the invitation of Prince A. Golitsyn arrived in Russia. Initially he worked at his estate Samoilova, built a church where the Blessed Virgin. From 1800 he lived in St. Petersburg. In the same year, the three figures, representing the internal and external views in the prospectus ... "was awarded the title of academician IAH. He taught at the IAH, since 1802 - professor of optics and perspective, from 1810 - professor of architecture.

approved in 1802 with the rank of court architect. Supervised reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater in St. Petersburg (1802-1805), the Stock Exchange on the Spit of Basil Island (1805-1810), launched the project J. Quarenghi, home of Countess AG Laval (1806-1809). Built a church in the Volkov Cemetery in St. Petersburg (1804-1809). He performed the projects of the mausoleum of Paul I at Pavlovsk (1800-e), the tombstone of Count PA Rumyantsev-Transdanubian (1807), the fountain at the Pulkovo mountain road to Tsarskoe Selo (1809). Create projects of furniture, lighting, clocks, vases, church plate. Since 1804 he worked at the Imperial Glass Factory, accomplished many glass products.

was a superb draftsman, with the famous Thomas de Thomon as graphics in the beginning of the XIX century ahead of his fame as an architect. Many worked in the techniques of watercolor, sanguine, chalk sauce. I created views of St. Petersburg, architectural fantasies, in which the varied themes of Roman and Greek antiquity. Replicated their drawings way counter-eprev. A series of engravings Vues originales d `Italie (St. Petersburg, 1801). The author of the treatise Traité de peinture, précédé de l `originale des Arts ... par Thomas de Thomon.

Thomas de Thomon - one of the greatest masters of architecture in Russia at the beginning of XIX century, the representative of late Classicism. He created his own style in architecture, characteristics of which are compositional simplicity, clarity of articulation, monumental, massive forms, the active use of Doric colonnade and circular elements - the rotunda dome. In the field of applied art there is the issue of separation of works by Thomas de Tomona and A. Voronikhin.

Graphic legacy master is large enough, a large part are counter-eprevy - small-size sheets, stamped with the artist's own drawings and subsequently refined by hand. Extremely characteristic is the conclusion of songs in an oval or circular shape.

Works of Thomas de Thomon are in many museum collections, among them - the State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Architecture. Shchusev and others.