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Sanssouci Palace

Sanssouci Palace

Scherf, Michael
Clough, Joan

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Series: Königliche Schlösser in Berlin, Potsdam Und Brandenburg

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ISBN10: 3422040366
ISBN13: 9783422040366
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
Published: Dec 14 2015
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.20 Width: 4.60 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
Sanssouci Palace, which Frederick the Great had built to his personal specifications, is one of the most important 18th-century royal palaces. Architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff finished the single-storey building in 1747 in only two years. Planned on the lines of a French pleasure castle, Sanssouci represents the pinnacle of Frederician Rococo. The statuary, the structure of the building itself and its site pay tribute to 'carefree leisure'. Beneath a striking dome is the famous oval Marble Hall, where Frederick the Great held his legendary round-table meetings with the intellectual elite of his day, sharing his many artistic and philosophical interests with guests such as Voltaire in an idyllic rural setting. Most of the 18th-century furnishings have survived to provide an authentic view of this place of cultural meetings, on which in large part rests the reputation of Frederick the Great as a monarch of the Enlightenment and major patron of the arts.

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