Dresden's most famous sculpture is the golden equestrian statue of Augustus II on Neustadplatz, which depicts Augustus II traveling from Dresdenstrasse to Warsaw to serve as King of Poland, and the statue of Martin Luther in front of the Frauenkirche in front of the Frauenkirche.

"Let's continue with Augustus II, a time when Marco Polo depicted China so beautifully that it ignited the fascination of the whole of Europe with China, and people saw distant China as a fairytale country, or equivalent to the land described in their religion. ”

The blue and white porcelain, which is in line with Marco Polo's fantasy land temperament, has naturally become a collection admired by the European upper class, and of course it is a treasure suitable for emperors to show off their financial resources and show their taste, the price at that time was very expensive, and the poor could not even eat, of course, they had no money to buy and collect blue and white porcelain, and they were all emperors and nobles who could collect. ”

"This emperor is so famous because of his obsession, no emperor is more fascinated by Chinese porcelain than the Polish king Augustus II, he has spent almost his whole life to achieve his identity as an avid collector of Chinese porcelain, and his crazy act makes him even more influential as a porcelain collector hundreds of years later than his prestige as an emperor, which may not have even been expected by him himself. ”

"Let's take a closer look at the life of this king!"

Born in 1670, Augustus II was one of the most famous swingers in Europe in the seventeenth century, who for a long time indulged in fencing, tactics, horseback riding, and other fashionable hobbies that were fashionable among his sons, and had little interest in the subjects of religion, history, and languages that he was supposed to study in his capacity. ”

"Before the age of 20, he traveled everywhere, France, Portugal, Italy and other countries have left his footprints, he began to linger at a very young age, and he lingered for it, and at the age of 23 he entered the wedding hall with Christine Epohardina of Bairrot in northern Germany, but in fact he already had five mistresses and had eight children with them, which is really laughable. ”

"This kind of gentleman, spending money with a lot of money, inattentive, that is, he has not yet found his point of interest, when he was young, exaggerated, he was immersed in enjoyment, and he had no goal in life, and he was muddy, so he spent it. ”

As the second son of Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, he had no chance of inheriting his father's inheritance over the hereditary realms of Saxony, but the notorious prince was a man of jealous luck. ”

"Some people just don't go well, what they want to get, it's so difficult, and the fate is tortuous, but this prince is very lucky, and his life is smooth. ”

In 1694, when his elder brother, Elector Johann Georg IV of Saxony, died of smallpox and had no children, he became the new crown prince of Saxony, and three years later, after the death of the Polish-Lithuanian king, he was crowned King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania with the support of Germany. ”

"Hahaha!" Meng Wenjie smiled, "It's really lucky, my brother died, there are no descendants, the king of Poland and Lithuania died, and he has a chance to ascend the throne!"

Robin also smiled, "Yes, some people have a good life, it's really enviable, life is so smooth, many people can't get him such good luck, suffer a lot, suffer a lot of setbacks and ups and downs, and may not be able to get him such a good opportunity!"

"Life is really not clear, I didn't believe in fate before, but sometimes I feel that it is difficult to escape the arrangement of fate, when I was young, I wanted to fight against fate, and I was firmly controlled by fate, I couldn't escape, and when I got older, I could only accept fate!"

"Many people are so helpless in reality, the older they get, the more they can compromise!"

And the fate of this prince was so enviable that Augustus II began two major events that were not commensurate with his kingship, building and collecting, which seemed to him to be more important than the expansion of the territory and the conquest of women's hearts, that is, because he devoted his energies to the construction of palaces and the collection of porcelain that he liked, and his throne was lost several times, and it did not go well. ”

At one point, he was forced to abdicate the Polish throne, and it was not until 1709, when Sweden was defeated at the Battle of Poltava, that he was restored to the throne with the support of Peter I. ”

After such twists and turns, he became more intoxicated with his hobbies, and he was often impatient with women, and when he was happy, he would give a palace to the woman he liked, but the favor never lasted. ”

He felt that those women only knew about luxury, but could not understand his heart, could not communicate with them, lacked spiritual resonance with him, and often quarreled with him over trivial matters, which made him feel very bored. ”

"People want to find something they are interested in to do, if they don't do anything, they will enjoy luxury all day long, and after a long time, they will feel tired, after all, find some, he feels that he has a sense of accomplishment to do, and life will be fulfilling!"

"A lasting sense of accomplishment, and only by constantly erecting magnificent and splendid palaces in front of his eyes, will Augustus II find comfort in the constant frustration. ”

In the following ten years, he presided over the construction of the Gross-Sedlitz Garden, the Friedrich Palace, the water palace and the mountain palace of the Pillnitz Palace, the Moritzburg Hunting Palace, and the Pygaard Palace. ”

"Zwinger Palace, surrounded by galleries of the museum's masters and ceramics collections, has been preserved to the present day with his preferences, so that visitors can appreciate these beauties. ”

"He decorated his palaces with beautiful and meaningful frescoes, sculptures, lacquer furniture, jewelry, and porcelain, and he used his palace to collect Chinese porcelain, which he has been deeply involved in ever since. ”

"Augustus II sourced and bought Chinese porcelain, and in order to get his own porcelain, he constantly put down his position and became close to many porcelain merchants. ”

He unceremoniously accepted tributes from his ministers, bought large quantities of Chinese porcelain, and gave him most of the Chinese porcelain he had collected for many years, even by Army Generals Field Marshall and Kanter Fleming. ”

"You think he's just buying porcelain, and that's it?"

"You're thinking wrong, this obsessive, already wanted to build his own porcelain factory to make it himself, and for this he created the first porcelain factory in Europe, the Meissen porcelain factory, and ordered the famous alchemist German Johann Friedrich Potgeel to find the recipe by trial and error. ”

"This leads to a lot of stories that follow, and I'll tell you slowly!" Robin smiled.

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