“Sphaera" by Stephan Balkenhol
Gilded bronze everyman balanced atop a soaring golden sphere in a historic cathedral square.
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This guide to the gilded "Sphaera" sculpture in Salzburg's Kapitelplatz starts in 2007, when sculptor Stephan Balkenhol looked at the square outside the cathedral and decided it needed a center. It traces why his bronze everyman, balanced on a golden sphere, echoes the medieval word Jedermann and the morality play still staged at the Salzburg Festival each summer. It also drops down to the low stone doorway behind the statue, tracing a monastery tavern first mentioned in a letter to Charlemagne in the year 803. Look for that doorway tucked against the cliff before you move on.
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