ITALIANISMS AS ARTISTIC TROPES IN ARCHITECTURE OF SAINT PETERSBURG

The article considers the problem of interpretation of the motives of classic Italian architecture and incorporating them into the classicistic architecture of St. Petersburg. This topic is analyzed using the theory of artistic tropes: semantic transfer values f rom one historical and cultural context to another. Outlines methods and techniques for building typological model similar transfers. To create such a model the author proposes to use categories and terms of aesthetics of postmodernism. According to the latest principles of typological analyzes postmodern individual projects St. Petersburg buildings of the 2000s.