Zwinger Palace, Dresden, Germany
Caryatid, Zwinger Palace, 18th century, by Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann with sculptor Balthasar Permoser, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. The Zwinger includes six pavilions connected by large galleries. The most impressive pavilions are the Rampart Pavillon (wall pavilion) and the Glockenspiel Pavillon (carillon pavilion). It was served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court. Today, it is a museum complex that contains the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery), the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Porzellansammlung), the Armory (Rustkammer) and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments). Dresden was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city centre. Picture by Manuel Cohen
