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Stadt München Bayern Max-Joseph-Platz |
König Maximilian I. Joseph von BayernMaximilian I Joseph of BavariaSchwetzingen nr. Mannheim 1756-München 1825prince-elector of Bavaria (as Maximilian IV Joseph) from 1799 to 1805 and king of Bavaria (as Maximilian I) from 1806 to 1825 (Wikipedia) |
Christian Daniel Rauch & Leo von Klenze
Johann Baptist Stiglmaier 1835 |
Reliefs and statues on the pedestal with description after Cheney (additions in [italics])
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Front |
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max. iosepho
The representation of science by an astronomer, who investigatges the heavens with his telescope, while a figure of Night discloses the constellations from under her veil; and on the other side, by the biologist, who gazes with wonder at the singular forms which Tellus reaches up from out of her depths. Thus Rauch paid honor to those scientific men, such as Oken, Schubert, Schelling, Fraunhofer, whom King Ludwig had welcomed to add to the glory of Munich (Cheney p. 175).
regi bavariae cives monacenses mdcccxxiv |
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Right |
![]() The... relief, in the composition of which Rietschel [=Ernst Rietschel, Pulsnitz 1804-Dresden 1861] assisted, represented law and agriculture. Both are treated allegorically. |
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Back |
![]() ...represent the giving of the consitution... |
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He has represented the two great branches of the Christian church by the figures of its priests, with an angel between them, extending her hands to the shoulders of eacht, while the light of the Holy Ghost on her head illumines all around. The Catholic has the features of the Court Bishop von Straber [Franz Ignaz von Streber (1758-1841) - Wikipedia], who was personally known to Rauch; and the Protestant is modelled from the portrait of Von Schmidt [Ludwig Friedrich von Schmidt (1764-1857) - Wikipedia], cabinet preacher of Queen Caroline, and the leading Protestant minister in Munich. |
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on the stone part of the socle:
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