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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germanyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1763-1769 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorGontard, Karl Philipp Christian vonen_US
dc.creatorBüring, Johann Gottfrieden_US
dc.date1763-1769en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-21T18:52:56Z
dc.date.available2016-06-21T18:52:56Z
dc.date.issued1763-1769en_US
dc.identifier264333en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3351en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/180391
dc.descriptionDetail, southwest wing of palace; Gontard was summoned by Frederick II, King of Prussia, to Potsdam. As head of the building office from 1764, he was in charge of all royal building projects, and he was ennobled in 1767. His worked showed Neo-classical tendencies in forms still bound to the Rococo. This trend is continued in the extension (1763-1769; with Johann Gottfried Büring) of the Neues Palais in Potsdam, although Gontard was obliged to use 'Frederician Rococo' motifs. Opposite this palace he erected the Communs (buildings to accommodate the royal retinue) and a colonnaded exedra linking them (1768-1769). Over 400 sandstone statues and figures adorn the palace and auxiliary buildings. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/19/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumred brick; stone; copper roofen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectFrederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786en_US
dc.subjectEighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleNew Palace (Potsdam)en_US
dc.title.alternativeNeues Palaisen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-G-P-NP-A06en_US
vra.culturalContextGerman Prussianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling), carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktyperoyal palaceen_US
dc.contributor.displayJohann Gottfried Büring (German architect, 1723-ca. 1788); Karl Philipp Christian von Gontard (German architect, 1731-1791)en_US


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