The Heracles' Fountain in Wallenstein Garden / Heraklova kašna ve Valdštejnské zahrade (Prague)
N 50° 05.426 E 014° 24.475
33U E 457646 N 5548853
Baroque Wallenstein garden at Prague's Lesser Town exceeds in fountains. One of them is beautiful fountain with sculpture of Heracles, Centaur Nessus and Deianeira...
Waymark Code: WM6GZR
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/03/2009
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Nice sandstone fountain is composed of circular basin where in its centre is pedestal with bronze sculpture of Heracles, Centaur Nessus and Deianeira by famous Mannerist artist Adrian de Vries.
Sculpture is copy of original, which was in 1648 stolen by Swedish army plundering Prague...
Adriaen de Vries (The Hague c. 1556 - Prague 1626) was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and in the manipulation of patina and became the most famous European sculptor of his generation. He also excelled in draughtsmanship. De Vries spent majority of his active life in Prague, on the Imperial court of Emperor Rudolph II., where he was a prominent emperor's artist...