Aloisio the New

Cathedral of the Metropolitan Peter is one of 12 churches built by Aloisio in Moscow. Aloisio the New or Aleviz Fryazin was an Italian Renaissance architect invited by Ivan III of Russia to work in Moscow. Some Italian scholars have attempted to identify him with the Venetian sculptor Alvise Lamberti da Montagnana, but this is still widely disputed. He was one of the four senior Italian masters to work in Russia, along with Aristotele Fioravanti, Pietro Antonio Solari, and Petrok Maly.

Life He is sometimes identified with the Venetian sculptor Alvise Lamberti da Montagnana. On his way to Russia, Aloisio was captured by Meñli I Giray, the khan of Crimea. It combined features of early Venetian architecture with Old Russian architecture. The cathedral's elaborate Renaissance ornamentation was extensively copied throughout 16th-century Russia. He also built the in 1508.

Aloisio the New was last mentioned in 1514, when he was entrusted by Vasili III to build 11 churches in Moscow. 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.