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Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vo

Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vo

Rice, John A.

Paperback

Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society

Art HistoryGeneral Gardening

ISBN10: 0871692589
ISBN13: 9780871692580
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2006
Pages: 257
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.58 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Between 1796 & 1800 Baron Peter von Braun, a rich businessman & manager of Vienna's court theaters, transformed his estate at Schonau into an English-style landscape park. The most celebrated building was the Temple of Night, a domed rotunda accessible only through a meandering rockwork grotto. A life-size statue of the goddess Night on a chariot pulled by two horses presided over the Temple, while from the dome, came the sounds of a mechanical musical instrument. Only the ruins survive, & the Temple has received little scholarly attention. This book brings it back to life by assembling the descriptions of it by early 19th-cent. eyewitnesses. Will appeal to anyone interested in the history of garden design, arch., theater, & music. Illus.

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