Brandenburg Gate
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The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start
View from Pariser Platz on the east side, 2008
An early 19th-century engraving comparing the recently constructed Brandenburg Gate (lower picture) to (an imagined restoration of) its historical model: the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens
Frontal view with the Pariser Platz looking west towards Straße des 17. Juni
The quadriga and bas-reliefs
Quadriga
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A quadriga is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast and favoured for chariot racing in classical antiquity and the Roman Empire. The word derives from the Latin quadrigae, a contraction of qua
Brandenburg Gate
…to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. The Brandenburg Gate is located in the western part of the city centre within…
Quadriga on the Austrian Parliament Building, Vienna
The original Horses of Saint Mark inside St Mark's Basilica, Venice
Helios in his chariot, early 4th century BC, Athena's temple, Ilion
A Lucanian fresco from Paestum depicting a quadriga, 4th century BC