# Sol

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schardt-johann-gregor-van-der-r0c895b93523161/sol-rd1b1480261e828>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [SCHARDT, Johann Gregor van der](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schardt-johann-gregor-van-der-r0c895b93523161>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Bronze, height 46 cm

## Commentary

This sculpture formed part of a group with several other personifications of celestial bodies. It comes from a large table fountain - a stack of statues and water basins that stood in the middle of an aristocratic or royal dining-table. During the meal, the figures spouted water. It is not known who commissioned this particular table fountain, it was probably someone at the court of the Habsburg emperor, Maximilian II.

## Related artworks

- [Allegories of the Four Seasons](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schardt-johann-gregor-van-der-r0c895b93523161/allegories-of-the-four-seasons-rf8acd15838f800>)
- [Bust of Willibald Imhoff](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schardt-johann-gregor-van-der-r0c895b93523161/bust-of-willibald-imhoff-rbdfafb7da0ab1f>)
- [Flora](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schardt-johann-gregor-van-der-r0c895b93523161/flora-r59f5bf66e2276c>)
- [Luna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schardt-johann-gregor-van-der-r0c895b93523161/luna-r6038a5856f96e3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)