Bucentaur (ship, 1719)
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The Bucentaur was a grand ship of the kings of Poland and electors of Saxony.
In 1719 August the Strong had a ship built by the Venetian architect Alessandro Mauro , who was appointed to Saxony , based on the example of the Venetian Bucintoro . The gilding alone cost 6,000 thalers. Mauro had already designed a magnificent ship in Venice, which the Prince Elector and his entourage noticed during a stay there in 1715.
From 1687 to 1689 August the Strong undertook a gentlemanly journey that also took him to Venice. That gave him the idea of turning the Elbe into a Saxon Grand Canal . As a master of baroque large-scale productions, he wanted to organize gondola rides on the Elbe in Venetian style with baroque pomp . August the Strong's legendary and almost constant balls, fairs, animal rushing, masquerades, illuminations and rifle festivals were well thought-out state actions that devoured huge sums of money. Like his new castles and art collections, they served the royal self-expression based on the model of Louis XIV of France . These were to be joined by ship parades as a further attraction, which also offered the opportunity to present the king's buildings on the bank.
On September 2, 1719, the newly wed Prince-Elector Friedrich August II and his wife Maria Josepha climbed the Bucentaur near Pirna and traveled on the Elbe via Pillnitz to Dresden, accompanied by 15 Dutch yachts .
In 1730 the Bucentaur served as the magnificent admiral ship of Joachim Daniel Jauch for the royal fleet consisting of six frigates, nine brigantines and fifty other ships during the "Spectacle of the Century", the pleasure camp of Zeithain .
Web links
- History of the magnificent Saxon gondolas
Footnotes
- ↑ Article Maurot in: Johann Rudolf Fuessli, Hans Heinrich Füssli: General Artist Lexicon , or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, art foundries, steel cutters ...: In addition to the attached lists of teachers and students, also of the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon. Volume 2, part 4, p. 805.
- ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon , Volume 8, Munich 1839, p. 481.
- ^ Gerhard Zwoch: The pleasure camp of Zeithain. Glaubitz 1998, ISBN 3-932913-19-1 , p. 19.