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Bell tower
Stroganov Leonid- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 12 × 20 cm
- Year
- 2016
An ornate Baroque bell tower with a slender spire glows above dark rooftops and chimneys under a star-flecked night sky.
- Style
- Graphic
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Architecture · Cityscape
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- Payment
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- Shipping
Economy: ~1 month
EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
Smaller works: boxed canvas
- Returns
7-day return
Refund after inspection, excluding shipping fees
About this work
A tall, richly decorated bell tower with tiers of columns, arched windows and a thin spike-like spire rises behind a row of plain rooftops and brick chimneys. Small statues occupy niches partway up the tower, and the pitched roofs and chimney stacks in the foreground sit in near silhouette, framing the illuminated structure against the sky.
Etched in fine, dense linework, the tower is left pale and warmly toned while the speckled, granular sky and shadowed roofs are worked into near-black darkness, creating a strong glow-in-the-dark contrast. The stippled texture across the sky reads as a field of stars, and tight crosshatching on the stonework gives it carved relief. The nocturnal contrast lends the print a hushed, almost ceremonial stillness.
