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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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 257
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
01 January 2006
Trim Size: 11.00 X 8.25 in
ISBN: 9780871692580
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
GARDENING / Garden Design
"A wonderful reconstruction not just of a lost piece of splendid eighteenth-century garden architecture, but also of the cultural world that celebrated its construction and of the later decline of both the garden and its cultural milieu…Immensely readable—a great excursion into a lost world."