Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vo

By 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 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692589
• ISBN13: 9780871692580
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.0"