The Hercules' Fountain in Wallenstein Garden / Herkulova fontána ve Valdštejnské zahrade (Prague)
N 50° 05.444 E 014° 24.512
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Baroque Wallenstein garden at Prague's Lesser Town exceeds in fountains. One of them is remarkable fountain with sculpture of Hercules fighting dragon surrounded by four lesser sculptures of women and water-gods...
Waymark Code: WM6GZY
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/03/2009
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This remarkable fountain is located on a small circular island in the middle of large square basin. On the middle of island is sculpture of Hercules fighting dragon and around it are regularly stationed four lesser sculptures, all of them work of famous Mannerist artist Adrian de Vries.
All sculptures are copies of originals, which were 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...