Berlin Art@Site www.artatsite.com Bertel Thorwaldsen Spes
Artist:

Bertel Thorwaldsen

Title:

Spes

Year:
1817
Adress:
Schlosspark, Tegel
Website:
www.wikipedia.org:
The park contains Wilhelm's wife's tomb monument in the park in 1829, on a site chosen by her - it consists of a high granite column topped by a statue of the Roman goddess Spes by Bertel Thorvaldsen, favoured by Caroline and bought by Wilhelm after her death.
The Schloss Tegel or Humboldt-Schloss is a country house in Tegel, part of the Reinickendorf district of the German capital Berlin. The brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt spent much of their childhood in a former schloss on the site and on the estate, which extends almost as far as Lake Tegel.
The park was originally designed between 1777 and 1789 by Gottlob Johann Christian Kunth, the Humboldts' tutor.

www.bildindex.de:
Grabstätte der Familie Humboldt, nach dem Tod von Karoline von Humboldt von Schinkel entworfene Anlage.
Die Spes ist heute durch eine Kopie ersetzt.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nach 1829
Berlin, Tegel, Schloss Tegel, Friedhof
Statue, Grabskulptur, Rundplastik

www.wikipedia.org:
In ancient Roman religion, Spes (pronounced [ˈspeːs]) was the goddess of hope. Multiple temples to Spes are known, and inscriptions indicate that she received private devotion as well as state cult.
Spes (lateinisch; ‚Hoffnung‘) ist eine geistliche Tugend und in der römischen Mythologie die Personifikation der Hoffnung, besonders auf Kinder und gute Ernte. Ihre Entsprechung in der griechischen Mythologie war Elpis.