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unusual facts about Augustus II the Strong


Pöppelmann

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, a German master builder who was court architect for Augustus II the Strong


François Coudray

1678 in Villecerf, in the Province of Champagne (now commune of Messon in the French departement of Aube) and died the died April 29, 1727 in Dresden, Duchy of Saxony (now federal state of Saxony, Germany) is a French sculptor who spent more of his proeminent artistic life in Dresden where he was the First sculptor of the King Augustus II the Strong.

Louis de Silvestre

Friedrich August II, the prince-elector of Saxony, met Silvestre when he was in France and offered him the chance to work at the court of his father Augustus II, King of Poland.

He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.


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