Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late EighteenthCentury Viennese Garden, Memoirs, American Phi,Used

Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late EighteenthCentury Viennese Garden, Memoirs, American Phi,Used

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Between 1796 & 1800 Baron Peter von Braun, a rich businessman & manager of Viennas court theaters, transformed his estate at Schonau into an Englishstyle landscape park. The most celebrated building was the Temple of Night, a domed rotunda accessible only through a meandering rockwork grotto. A lifesize 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 19thcent. eyewitnesses. Will appeal to anyone interested in the history of garden design, arch., theater, & music. Illus.

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