Golden Rider
Gilded hammered-copper equestrian statue of a Saxon elector and Polish king dressed as a Roman Caesar.
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This guide to the Golden Rider on Dresden's Neustädter Markt starts on the November day in seventeen thirty-six when the city first saw Augustus the Strong in gold, and goes back to the Friedrichstadt workshop where an Augsburg craftsman set out to make him. It touches the Saxon elector who was also King of Poland, his Roman costume, and the way the horse is pointed. Stand in front of the statue, facing the horse, to hear it best.
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