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The Temple of Night at Schonau Architecture Music and Theater in a Late EighteenthCentury Viennese Garden - Memoir 258 - Memoirs of the American Philosophical ... of the American Philosophical Society
Author: John, A. Rice

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 chario...  more »t 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.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780871692580
ISBN-10: 0871692589
Publication Date: 11/30/2006
Pages: 257
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Book Type: Hardcover
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