The Well Of Life
Bronze ring of life-size nude figures leaning over a still circular pool, cast from a Vienna original.
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This guide to the Well of Life in front of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb follows Ivan Meštrović's ring of nude bronze figures from a Vienna studio in nineteen-oh-five to the square where it was set in nineteen twelve. It touches the Vienna Secession and Gustav Klimt, the shimmer Meštrović learned from Rodin, and why the fountain sits low in a walled hollow. Best heard walking slowly around the rim, close enough to see the water.
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