One of the four statues of sitting Greek and Roman writers on the bordes of the Bavarian State Library. From left to right:
thukydides
homer
aristoteles
hippokrates
Annotation
These four statues replace the originals after models by Ludwig von Schwanthaler (1837), these originals were sculpted by Johann Ernst Mayer (Thukydides and Homer, 1843), and Francesco Sanguinetti (Aristoteles and Hippokrates, 1843), at present in Bernau am Chiemsee (Schulhof).
