NOBILE, Pietro
(b. 1774, Campestro, d. 1854, Wien)

General view

1820-23
Photo
Temple of Theseus, Vienna

The temple is built after the antique Thesaion in Athens and was the first building in Vienna to be used exclusively as a museum: Antonio Canova's Theseus Fighting the Centaurs was originally exhibited here. Nobile used the classic Greek Doric Order here, as he also did with the Outer Burgtor.




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