Parnassus
by TIETZ, Adam Ferdinand, Sandstone, formerly gilded
As court sculptor in W�rzburg, Bamberg, and Trier, Adam Ferdinand Tietz was occupied mainly in producing garden figures of sandstone.
The dramatic depiction of a classical subject in a dynamic, stylised pose is typical of South German Rococo garden sculpture. Its most prominent representative was Tietz, who adorned Franconian residences with engaging figures in symmetrical arrangements.
As the classical home of Apollo and the Muses, the Parnassus in the Great Lake of the prince-bishop’s summer residence at Veitsh�chheim is incorporated into the garden as nature enhanced by architecture.