Minerva (Athena)
1749 Francois Gaspard Adam Sockel: Breite: 10,9 m, Tiefe: 1,09 m, Höhe:1,31 m.
Photo Manfred Brueckels
Palace of Sanssouci with sculpture and fountain in the foreground
Potsdam, Germany
The Great Fountain was built at the centre of this garden in 1748. Frederick never saw the fountain playing because the engineers employed in the construction had little understanding of the hydraulics involved. From 1750, marble statues were placed around the basin of the fountain. This again was a feature copied from Versailles: figures of Venus, Mercury, Apollo, Diana, Juno, Jupiter, Mars and Minerva, as well as allegorical portrayals of the four elements Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Venus and Mercury, the works of the sculptor Jean Baptiste Pigalle, and two groups of hunters, allegories of the elements (wind and water) by Lambert Sigisbert Adam, were presented by Versailles's owner, the French King Louis XV. The remaining figures came from the workshop of François Gaspard Adam, a renowned sculptor in Berlin. By 1764, the French Rondel, as it came to be known, was completed.
Juno (Hera) with peacock, Palace of Sanssouci , Francois Gaspard Adam 1753
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