Aloisio the New

Aloisio the New (Russian: Алевиз Новый, romanized: Aleviz Novyy) or Aleviz Fryazin (Russian: Алевиз Фрязин) was an Italian Renaissance architect invited by Ivan III of Russia to work in Moscow.

[1] Some Italian scholars have attempted to identify him with the Venetian sculptor Alvise Lamberti da Montagnana, but this is still widely disputed.

Aloisio's first and principal work in Moscow was the Archangel Cathedral, the burial place of Muscovite monarchs.

Although only parts of these structures have been preserved, there is enough evidence to assume that they were built in strikingly differing styles.

The best preserved of these churches is the katholikon of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery in Moscow (1514–17), considered the earliest rotunda in Russia.