The Glyptothek
The Glyptothek (built from 1816 to 1830) was designed by Leo von Klenze to house Ludwig's Greek and Roman sculpture collection. The name comes from glypto- "sculpture", from the Greek verb γλύφειν glyphein "to carve").
"Oct. 8.—First visit to the Glyptothek—just returned—my imagination, still filled with "the blaze, the splendor, and the symmetry,"—excited as I never thought it could be again excited after seeing the Vatican; but this is the Vatican in miniature. Can it be possible that this glorious edifice was planned by a young prince, and erected out of his yearly savings ? I am wonder-struck! I was not prepared for any thing so "spacious, so magnificent, so perfect in taste and arrangement."
Mrs. Anna Jameson
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1834) Page 115
A speech read at the Royal Institute of British Architects on February 10, 1851, was published in The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, in which the Glypothek was described as being "situated on the outskirts of the city, in the midst of a garden, which greatly enhances the effect of its architecture."
"Oct. 8.—First visit to the Glyptothek—just returned—my imagination, still filled with "the blaze, the splendor, and the symmetry,"—excited as I never thought it could be again excited after seeing the Vatican; but this is the Vatican in miniature. Can it be possible that this glorious edifice was planned by a young prince, and erected out of his yearly savings ? I am wonder-struck! I was not prepared for any thing so "spacious, so magnificent, so perfect in taste and arrangement."
Mrs. Anna Jameson
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1834) Page 115
A speech read at the Royal Institute of British Architects on February 10, 1851, was published in The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, in which the Glypothek was described as being "situated on the outskirts of the city, in the midst of a garden, which greatly enhances the effect of its architecture."
Temple of Aphaia Pedimental Sculptures
“Dying warrior” (probably Trojan warrior Laomedon), Temple of Aphaia, ca. 505–500 BC.
In 1811, two Germans, Baron Carl Haller von Hallerstein and Jakob Linckh, together with English architect Charles Robert Cockerell, discovered most of the pedimental sculptures belonging to the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina. These were purchased at auction by Crown Prince Ludwig in 1813 and taken to Munich.
Barberini Faun
The Barberini Faun, so-called for having been owned by the Barberini family in Rome, was purchased by Ludwig in 1813 for 8,000 scudi. It had been found in the immediate neighborhood of Hadrian's Mausoleum (the Castle of St. Angelo) during the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623-44), and placed in his family palace, that of the Barberini.
Harvard Art Museums calls the sculpture "the great Hellenistic marble ... one of the key works in the Western canon."
Glyptothek Official Website
Photos of the Glyptothek and Its Works of Art by Brian McMurrow
The Munich Glyptothek: Greek and Roman Sculpture (2002) by Dieter Ohly
Glyptothek, Munich: Masterpieces of Greek and Roman Sculpture (2007) by Raimund Wünsche
Greek & Roman Sculpture (1914) by Adolf Furtwängler, Heinrich Ludwig Urlichsf
True Colors by Matthew Gurewitsch in Smithsonian magazine, July 2008
Harvard Art Museums calls the sculpture "the great Hellenistic marble ... one of the key works in the Western canon."
Glyptothek Official Website
Photos of the Glyptothek and Its Works of Art by Brian McMurrow
The Munich Glyptothek: Greek and Roman Sculpture (2002) by Dieter Ohly
Glyptothek, Munich: Masterpieces of Greek and Roman Sculpture (2007) by Raimund Wünsche
Greek & Roman Sculpture (1914) by Adolf Furtwängler, Heinrich Ludwig Urlichsf
True Colors by Matthew Gurewitsch in Smithsonian magazine, July 2008