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In the landscape painting of the Neo-Classical period a fondness for topographical precision combined with a tendency to idealize the motifs depicted. Quite often this second trend transformed a real-life object into a visual formula of a perfect architectural creation or landscape decoration. Nevertheless, features of the original were almost always present in such idealized "portraits". Here, for instance, it is believed that the park pavilion (on the stand for the dessert bowl) is most probably a depiction of the Temple of Victory in the famous Kew Gardens that was built in 1759 in commemoration of the Battle of Minden and no longer exists. |
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