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...Berliners, no statue was more beloved than the great copper-plated goddess of victory driving her four 12-ft. horses proudly atop the 69-ft.-tall Brandenburg Gate. Completed in 1794, the Quadriga of Victory was the most famous work of a minor Prussian court sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle...
...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...
...German Sculpture, dating from the beginning of the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. The earliest works represented are the famous bronze doors of the cathedral at Hildesheim made in about 1015. The most modern piece is the marble statue of Frederick the Great, made by Gottfried Schadow at Stettin. The works vary in size from the masks of dying warriors over the Arsenal at Berlin, to the entire Golden Gate of the cathedral at Freiberg, which is a famous model of portal sculpture belonging to the first half of the thirteenth century. Among the most interesting...
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