I.—Detail of Façade of the Old Museum, Berlin, with sculpture group. details

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I.—Detail of Façade of the Old Museum, Berlin, with sculpture group.

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I.—Old Museum, Berlin: Detail of Façade, with Sculpture Group “The Amazon.” Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Architect. Kiss, Sculptor.

panopticum took a photograph of these steps that helps to put them into scale: they do appear to be of monumental proportions!

The naked woman in the picture is about to throw her spear from her horse: maybe she is an Amazon warrior.

The museum was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1830, and was the first to be built on Berlin’s ‘Museum Island’.

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170 x 248mm (6.7 x 9.8 inches)

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