1880 Moscow TSAR BELL , Hand-colored Antique Engraving , Russia Kremlin

Description: Antique Hand-colored Engraving " The Great Bell at Moscow " ( Russia ) Undated, however this woodcut was published in 1880 Colored by hand with watercolor paints. Mat size is 8" x 10" Over 140 years old. Nice Condition. Carefully Packed for Shipment to the Buyer ------------ The Tsar Bell The Tsar Bell ( Russian :Tsar-kolokol ), also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell, is on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna Ivanovna, niece of Peter the Great. The Tsar Bell is located between the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and the Kremlin Wall. It is the largest bell in the world. Made of bronze, it is 20.1 feet tall, 22 feet in diameter, and weighs 445,166 lbs. The bronze is up to 2 feet thick. The broken piece weighs 11,500 25,400 lbs. The bell cracked during a fire after being completed and has never been rung. It is decorated with relief images of baroque angels , plants , oval medallions with saints , and nearly life-size images of Empress Anna and Tsar Alexey , who was reigning at the time the previous Tsar Bell was cast in 1735. Ornamentation was added over time, through 1737, however, before it was completed, a major fire broke out at the Kremlin in May 1737. The fire spread to the temporary wooden support structure for the bell, and fearing damage, guards threw cold water on it, causing eleven cracks, and a huge 23,000 lb slab to break off. The fire burned through the wooden supports, and the damaged bell fell back into its casting pit. The Tsar Bell remained in its pit for almost a century. Unsuccessful attempts to raise it were made in 1792 and 1819. Napoleon Bonaparte, during his occupation of Moscow in 1812, considered removing it as a trophy to France, but was unable to do so, due to its enormous size and weight. It was finally successfully raised in the summer of 1836 by the French architect Auguste de Montferrand and placed on a stone pedestal. For a time, the bell served as a chapel, with the broken area forming the door. Voltaire once joked that the Kremlin's two greatest items were a bell which was never rung and a cannon ( the Tsar Pushka ) that was never fired. In the spring of 2016, a team of UC Berkeley, Stanford, and University of Michigan researchers publicly performed an electronic reproduction of how the Tsar Bell would sound if it had not been damaged during casting. It's a sound millions of Russians have imagined but have never heard. " It's like a really low base and it's more like a rumble ," UC Berkeley Professor Greg Niemeyer said. The frequency was so low that it makes your body tremble. A sound that inspires fear. The sound has been described as terrifying - " the last sound you hear before the end of the world ." The sound of Doom.

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