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Jun 19 2010
Acropolis of Athenhs, Leo von Klenze, 1846
German / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
The German painter, writer and architect Leo von Klenze’s depiction of what the Akropolis of Athens looked like in the Age of Perikles. This was created in 1846 and resides in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The creator, Leo von Klenze died there in 1864 at the age of eight years.
Klenze was the court architect to Jerome Bonaparte of Westphalia and Ludwig I of Bavaria. In Munich he designed and built several Neoclassical buildings among which were the Ruhnseshalle, the Monopteros Temple and the Walhalla Temple. Von Klenze also made plans for the rebuilding Athens when it became independent of Turkey and for the building of the New Hermitage museum in Russia. He sold his collection of paintings to King Ludwig I in 1841 and died in Munich in 1864.
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