GUIDE TO THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS OF DRESDEN

N 570 As+e. GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONSiROYAL DRESDEN TRANSLATED BY C. S. FOX I'riJLISII Ki> liV AUTHOEITY IMilCE 1 MARK DRESDEN A I. I'. ANUS' PRINTING WORKS 1897GIFT OF-H fUe^SCJ'\ GUIDE TO THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS OF DRESDEN TRANSLATED BY C. S. FOX PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY PKICE 1 MARK DRESDEN 1ALBANUS PRINTING WORKS 1897RIGHTS RESERVED.ALLNzzrro , CONTENTS page 1The Building's COLLECTIONS IN THE ZWINGEE: 7The Picture Gallery 59Print Koom Museum . 69and EthnographicalZoological, Anthropological . . . 117and Prehistoric Museum .Mineralogical, Geological Salon . . . 129Mathematisch-Physikalischer (Science Museum) IN THE KOYAL PALACE: 137The Green Vaults The of 163Collection Coins IN THE JOHANNEUM MUSEUM: 169The Historical Museum (Armoury) Fire Arms 185Gallery of Porcelain 191Collection IN THE ALBEETINUM: Collection of 225Sculpture IN THE JAPANISCHE PALAIS: The Public 269Koyal Library List of for on to thesalep]ngravings application Secretary of , 275'the Gallery 384726THE BUILDINGS The erected between 1711 and 1722 M.byZwinger for the Fetes and Tourna-D. Poppelmann (16621736) ments of took its name from theKing Augustus II, a former a the fortifications ofZwinger," space adjoining the town. The work with its decorationpicturesque being an of this German entirely original production master, may be considered one of the most brilliant of theexamples national Barock The was on thestyle. building begun u or western and the centre of this crownedrampart" side, Permoser's is from an of"Hercules" artistic viewby point the of the whole. The southern side thegem containing an surmounted a was nextentrance, archway by tower, In 1722 on the of the eastern sideerected. completion Grand House and anotherthe(which Opera building sidethen the work was broken the northernadjoined) off, filled in a wall tobeing temporarily by painted represent a row of arches. The in the fourceilings corner-buildings were and Louis deFehling, Pellegrini Sylvestre.painted by inthe work of the latter the Mathematische Salon,Only and between 1717 23 hasrepresenting Olympus, painted it was restored in 1862 and 1863survived; Walther,by and between 1892 95 and Two statuesGey Steglich.by done Balthasar Permoser and 1716 for thesein 1715by Museumhave been removed from thebuildings Mineralogical Mathe-to the Collection of The hall of theSculpture. Pavilionmatische Salon and the north westernparticularlyTHE BUILDINGS of the Picture still bear traces of theirGallery original beautiful marble The so-called Diana orfittings. Nymph's an aisolated court fountain in theBath, containing large north western corner of the has been inbuilding preserved a state of wildness.picturesque The which was not intended for theZwinger only celebration of but also to serve as an andFetes, Orangery for the of the Art Collections was not to thereception put latter use till when a of the Collectionspart Royal1727, The for the awere there. erection of newarranged plans to which the should serve as a kind ofpalace Zwinger renewed till the 1763although yearcoiytyard constantly were never but in 1788 after the three easternrealised, had wasbeen of the theportions emptied Library building Schade. In 1849 the same therepaired by portions (with Natural Collection which then wereHistory they contained) this necessitated their reconstruction.destroyed by fire; areThe on the erected centresculptures newly portion by Hdhnel. In the middle of the stands the statueZwinger of Frederic the theKing Augustus Just, by Rietschel, pedestal Semper.by A work of the buildingspecial containing engravings Hettnerwas in 1729 In 1874published by Poppelmann. " issued a on The illustratedsplendid publication Zwinger," with The of theoriginalphotolithographs. appearance incan best be realised from Canaletto'sbuilding paintings the Picture Gallery. The was in 1847Museum (Picture Gallery) begun to s and he leftSemper 1879) design,according (f (as in Haenel and inDresden was Kriiger1849) completed by inwith some alteration in the it is the1854, Cupola; style of the Italian Renaissance. The ornamentationsculptural Hdhnel and Rietschel(1811 (18041861) sym-by 1892} thebolises classical art on the side towards Theaterplatz, and modern art on the side. The on theZwinger gateway side is rich in ornamentation. Here weZwinger particularly Hdhnel's of and Michael underhave Raphael Angelo;figures