Bronze relief devoted to the benefits of book printing for Europe on the monument to Johannes Gutenberg (1840) by French sculptor David d'Angers in Strasbourg, France. Erasmus, Durer, Voltaire, Descartes next to the printing press, Montesquieu, Leibniz, Alessandro Volta, Galilei and Raphael are depicted (from left to right) in the foreground. Torquato Tasso, Cervantes, Poussin, John Milton, Mozart, Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Shakespeare, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lessing, Immanuel Kant, Copernicus, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Hegel, Isaac Newton and Spinoza appear among the other in background
Bronze relief devoted to the benefits of book printing for Europe on the monument to Johannes Gutenberg (1840) by French sculptor David d'Angers in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Erasmus of Rotterdam, Albrecht Durer, Voltaire, Rene Descartes next to the printing press, Montesquieu, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Alessandro Volta, Galileo Galilei and Raphael are depicted (from left to right) in the foreground. Torquato Tasso, Cervantes, Nicolas Poussin, John Milton, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Moliere, Pierre Corneille, William Shakespeare, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Immanuel Kant, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Isaac Newton and Baruch Spinoza appear among the other in the background (from left to right).
Size: 4831px × 3012px
Photo credit: © Azoor Photo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: albrecht, alessandro, alsace, angers, book, bronze, david, descartes, durer, enlightenment, erasmus, europe, european, france, french, galilei, galileo, gutenberg, historical, history, introduction, jean, johannes, leibniz, literature, memorial, montesquieu, monument, panel, person, pierre, place, portrait, press, print, printing, raffaello, raphael, relief, renaissance, rene, rotterdam, sanzio, science, sculpture, strasbourg, theatre, volta, voltaire
