Prediama Castle in the Duchy of Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste

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Prediama Castle in the Duchy of Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste

1816

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781–1841)

City planner, painter, printmaker, and furniture and set designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel is best known today as the leading architect of Berlin of his time. The subject of this lithograph is a Renaissance castle built into the entrance of a cavern in a rugged cliff face above a mountain stream in Krajna, Slovenia. On his way to Italy in 1803 Schinkel made a number of sketches of the castle and its wildly Romantic setting, which he was able to put to good use thirteen years later when making this lithograph.

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Object Details

Title:

Prediama Castle in the Duchy of Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste
Das Schloss Prediama in Crein XII Stund: von Triest

Date:

1816

Artist:

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781–1841)

Medium:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

Image: 15 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (39.1 x 31.8 cm) Sheet: 16 5/16 x 13 1/4 inches (41.4 x 33.7 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund, 2011

Accession Number:

2011-173-1

Geography:

Made in Germany, Europe

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