Schloss Belvedere, Weimar
Belvedere Castle near Weimar was built for Duke Ernst August of Saxony-Weimar and Eisenach between 1724 and 1748. Originally a hunting lodge with a menagerie, it became a summer residence. In 1923 it entered the Weimar State Art Collections as a museum of eighteenth-century arts and crafts.
Belvedere Castle near Weimar was built for Duke Ernst August of Saxony-Weimar and Eisenach between 1724 and 1748. Originally a hunting lodge with a menagerie, it became a summer residence. In 1923 it entered the Weimar State Art Collections as a museum of eighteenth-century arts and crafts.
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Editorial reading
Editorial interpretation: The change from hunting lodge to summer residence and museum offers a way to read Belvedere through successive purposes. Considering those phases together may help connect its courtly origins with its later cultural role.
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