Zwinger Palace, Dresden, Germany
Zwinger Palace and Zwinger balustrade reflected, 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). The Zwinger Palace served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court. It is a museum complex that contains the Old Masters Picture Gallery (Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister), the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Porzellansammlung), the Armory (Rustkammer) and the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon). Dresden was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city centre. Picture by Manuel Cohen
