This sculpture depicts Shakespeare's famous Juliet Capulet from his play Romeo & Juliet as a young woman, standing and wearing a long thin gown. The bronze work is lifesized...and the figure's right breast is a different hue due to people touching the work.
A plaque at the site reads:
"DIESES BILDNES DER
JULIA
WURDE VON DER CASSA DI
RISPARDMIO DI VERONA VICENZA
E. BELLUNO DER STADT MUENCHEN.
ANLAESSLICH IHRES GEMEINSAM
MIT DER STADT SPARKASSE MUENCHEN
BEGANGEN 150 AEHRIGEN
BESTEHENS GESTIFTET
SEPTEMBER 1974
That whiles Verona by that name is known
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet
Romeo & Juliet Act V Scene III
"As for the moon, Wikipedia (
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"Juliet... is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 3 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 2. It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It is also designated Uranus XI.
Juliet belongs to Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Unfortunately, other than its orbit, radius of 53 km[2] and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about Juliet.
At the Voyager 2 images Juliet appears as an elongated object, the major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Juliet's prolate spheroid is 0.5 ± 0.3, which is rather an extreme value. Its surface is grey in color.
Juliet may collide with Desdemona within the next 100 million years."