List of sculptures at the Palais in the Great Garden
The list of sculptures at the Palais in the Great Garden gives an overview of the sculptures and busts at the Palais in the Great Garden , a cultural monument in the Saxon capital of Dresden. The palace was built from 1678 to 1683 under the direction of the chief architect Johann Georg Starcke and his superior Wolf Caspar von Klengel as a pleasure palace for the Saxon dynasty, the Wettins . Later it was used as the museum of the Royal Saxon Antiquities Association. The building is divided into a ground floor, a main floor and a mezzanine above.
The facades are richly decorated with plastic jewelry. Sculptures of the four seasons are arranged above the triangular or segmented gables. The other sculptures mainly deal with ancient themes and personalities. Larger-than-life sandstone sculptures on the judgment of Paris and other mythological subjects are located in several niches on the ground floor and main floor. In the niches of the mezzanine floor there are busts of twelve Roman emperors (Caesars) and four empresses, who are attributed to Jeremias Sussner , below each of which are the keystone heads above the portals, which were probably created by George Heermann .
In addition to George Heermann , who has just returned from Italy, the brothers Jeremias and Conrad Max Süßner , Abraham Conrad Buchau and Marcus Conrad Dietze were involved in decorating the facade .
List of sculptures
The sculptures and busts are listed according to the facade of the palace, with the names according to the cardinal points and the numbering from top to bottom or from left to right:
- North facade: N1 to N9 (towards Stübelallee)
- East facade: O1 to O18 (towards Palaisteich)
- South facade: S1 to S9 (towards Tiergartenstraße)
- West facade: W1 to W16 (towards the old town)
The list is partially sortable.
| image | Type and location no. |
Name of the sculpture / bust
(Reign of the emperor) |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
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North facade | ||
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Sculpture N1 | winter | above the triangular gable |
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Triangular gable N2 | Initials JG3C
( Johann Georg III. - Elector) |
Triangular gable |
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Bust N3 | Videllius (Vitellius) (69) | Left |
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Bust N4 | empress
( Petronia or Vipsania Agrippina ) |
center |
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Bust N5 | Tiberius (14-37) | right |
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Head N6 | Capstone head | above the window, on the left |
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Head N7 | Capstone head | above the window, right |
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Sculpture N8 | Minerva | Left |
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Sculpture N9 | Juno | right |
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East facade | ||
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Sculpture O1 | summer | above the segment gable |
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Segment gable O2 | Electoral Saxon coat of arms with Kurhut and Kurschwertern | Segment gable |
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Bust O3 | Otho (69) | Left |
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Bust O4 | Domitian (81-96) | Middle, left side |
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Bust O5 | Empress ( Domitia Longina or Berenike ) | center |
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Bust O6 | Titus (79-81) | Middle, right side |
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Bust O7 | Galba (68-69) | right |
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Head O8 | Capstone head | above the window, on the left |
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Head O9 | Capstone head | Middle, left side, above the window |
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Head O10 | Capstone head | Middle, right side, above the window |
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Head O11 | Capstone head | above the window, right |
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Sculpture O12 | Mythological female figure | Middle left |
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Sculpture O13 | Mythological female figure | Middle right |
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Head (mask) O14 | Capstone head | Central projection above the portal |
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Niche O15 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, lower left |
| Niche O16 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, bottom right | |
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Pedestal O17 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, lower left |
| Pedestal O18 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, bottom right | |
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South facade | ||
.JPG) |
Sculpture S1 | spring | above the triangular gable |
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Triangular gable S2 | Initials JG3C
(Johann Georg III. - Elector) |
Triangular gable |
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Bust S3 | Caligula (37-41) | Left |
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Bust S4 | Empress ( Iunia Claudilla or Flavia Domitilla the Elder ) | center |
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Bust S5 | Vespasian (69-79) | right |
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Head S6 | Capstone head | above the window, on the left |
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Head S7 | Capstone head | above the window, right |
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Sculpture S8 | Venus with Cupid boys | Left |
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Sculpture S9 | Paris | right |
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West facade | ||
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Sculpture W1 | autumn | above the segment gable |
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Segment gable W2 | Electoral Saxon coat of arms with Kurhut and Athena with the Kurschwertern, as well as putti with the diamond wreath | Segment gable |
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Bust W3 | Julius Caesar (until 44 BC) | Left |
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Bust W4 | Claudius (41-54) | Middle, left side |
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Bust W5 | Empress ( Agrippina the Younger or Claudia Octavia ) | center |
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Bust W6 | Nero (54-68) | Middle, right side |
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Bust W7 | Augustus (30 BC - 14 AD) | right |
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Head W8 | Capstone head | above the window, on the left |
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Head W9 | Capstone head | Middle, left side, above the window |
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Head W10 | Capstone head | Middle, right side, above the window |
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Head W11 | Capstone head | above the window, right |
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Sculpture W12 | Mythological female figure | Middle left |
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Sculpture W13 | Mythological figure | Middle right |
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Head (mask) W14 | Capstone head | Central projection above the portal |
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Niche W15 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, lower left |
| Niche W16 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, bottom right | |
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Pedestal W17 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, lower left |
| Pedestal W18 | z. Not occupied at the moment | Middle, bottom right | |
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Kurhut | above the roof bay | four times over the side wings, left and right (east and west facade) |
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West facade | Date of construction 1679 | Door portal, left |
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East facade | Date of construction 1680 | Door portal, left |
literature
- ↑ Winfried Werner: The Palace in the Great Garden of Dresden , Great Architectural Monuments Book 532, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich-Berlin, 1999, 40 pp.
