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

ISBN: 0871692589

ISBN13: 9780871692580

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

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...

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