Tuesday, July 23, 2013

the lingering scent of an inexcusable fire

the scent of the 2 September 2004 fire in the "Rococo Hall" of the Anna Amalia Bibliothek can still be discerned in the first moments on entering...



the realistic 1831 bust of Goethe (ca. age 80) by Frenchman P. J. David d'Angers, conveyed the most lasting impression of those times (especially compared to all of the idealized, 'noble-Greek-style' busts of Goethe, et al common in those times which also occupy the Rococo Hall).


  

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