Dresden is the capital of Saxony. It has a centuries-long history as a capital city. Among its jewels is the baroque palace Zwinger, which opened in 1719. We're staying close by, so we've walked the grounds several times. Today, we focused on visiting the Zwinger more thoroughly, including the Old Masters Picture Gallery and the Mathematisch-Physikalisher Salon. Camera use was not allowed in the picture gallery, so the highlighted art pieces below are from Wikipedia. In the salon, the devices I photographed were mainly mirrors and lenses that concentrated solar light or lantern light for high temperature heating.
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| An immense crown adorns one of the gateways into the Zwinger |
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| Damage from WWII is slowly being erased |
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| One of several gallery buildings in the Zwinger |
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| Rafael's Sistine Madonna (1512) |
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| Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (1659) |
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| Liotard's Chocolate Girl (pastel!) (1744) |
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| This mirror could melt metal using the sun's light. |
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| Powerful concentrating lens. |
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| An early vacuum pump. |
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| Array of mirrors for projecting light energy from lantern. |
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| Building in the Zwinger that houses a porcelain collection. |
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