Mramorbad

Mramorbad ( German: Marmorbad ; apt. “Marble Baths”) is a structure in the park of the German city of Kassel , next to the greenhouse .

Building
Mramorbad
him. Marmorbad
View of Mramorbad from the outside
A country	Germany
A park
Type of building	bathhouse
Architectural style	barroco
Sculptor	Pierre Etienne Monnot
Founder	Karl (Landgrass of Hesse-Kassel)
First mention	XVIII century
Building	1722 - 1728 years
Site	museum-kassel.de/index_n...

The square building is one of the last significant buildings in Germany in the late Baroque style. It was built in the period from 1722 to 1728 by order of the Landgrave Hesse-Kassel Karl . Mramorbad is a three-story building, in the center of which is a swimming pool. The interior design was created by the French sculptor Pierre-Etienne Monno .

Monno arrived in Kassel in 1714 to create marble busts of the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Karl and his wife. In January 1715, the first contracts were signed for the new bathhouse pavilion ( French: Appartement du Bain ) with its sculptures, ten of which were already completed in Rome, some as early as 1692. Four high-reliefs of white marble were also ordered for the exterior walls of the pavilion, eight reliefs and a portrait of Karl himself. Monno established a studio in Kassel, in which he hired several people to help with the work. Updated agreements from 1718 increased the number of marble high reliefs to eight. They were ready only by 1728, when, and the whole ensemble was opened. Monno completed the last two statues, Minerva and Aurora in 1731, but were delivered to Kassel only in 1734.

Currently, there are twelve large marble sculptures, ten reliefs , as well as . In addition to portraits of the landgrave Carl and his wife Maria Amalia Courland , which hang above two fireplaces, characters from Roman mythology are on the opposite side. Moving counterclockwise, you can see the following sculptures: Faun , Bacchus with Ampel , Mercury with Cupid , Aurora , Leda with a swan and Cupid , Apollo peeling off the skin of Marcia , Minerva with Satyr , Narcissus , Venus and Cupid , Paris with an apple, Summer with Apollon and Diana at the pond with the bacchanal . In turn, the following scenes are depicted on the reliefs: Europe and the bull, Callisto learns about Diana ’s pregnancy, the liberation of Andromeda Perseus with Cupid , Triumph of Galatea , Apollon and Daphne with Cupid , Diana and Actaeon , the rescue of Arethus from Alpheus with the help of Diana and the wedding of Bacchus and Ariadne The sculptures are made of white marble, the walls are colorfully lined.