Amber Room
Also known as The Amber Room, Pushkin
room made of amber
Key facts
- Artist
- Andreas Schlüter , Gottfried Wolfram
- Medium
- Amber , gold leaf , gemstone , mirror
- Movement
- Classicism
- Weight
- 6 tonnes (13,000 lb)
- Condition
- reconstruction
- Location
- Catherine Palace , Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
- Owner
- Russian Federation
- Website
- amberroom .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
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Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003
The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, romanized: Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg.
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