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A small devil made of black lead is founded into glass. In 1720 it was described in the treasure chamber in Vienna as „Spiritus familiaris“, a demon that had been driven out of a maniac and then was banished into the glass.
Apr 4, 2022 · Tiny Demon preserved in a prism of glass. Popkin 8:30 am Mon Apr 4, 2022. If you happen to find yourself near the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection in Vienna, be sure to pay this tiny devil ...
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The Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum developed from the art collections of the House of Habsburg. Today it is one of the largest and most important of its kind in the world. The foundations of the collection were laid and its main emphases set in the 17th century: 16th-century Venetian painting (Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto ...
From the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna . This small figure of a devil incorporated into a solid glass prism was originally in the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614– 1662); the 1659 inventory lists it as a »small square glass, with a pointed top, that contains a black figure in the shape of a devil« (»klein viereckendte[s] Glasz, oben gespizt, war in ein schwarcze ...
Nov 4, 2016 · This project allows the viewer to experience art from the artist’s point of view, and one will find the exhibition’s outlook to be slightly different from those curated by art historians. This year the museum has invited Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes, who, apart from having been awarded various prices for his books ...
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May 23, 2022 · Archeology and art. · May 23, 2022 ·. A tiny devil vitrified in a prism of glass. In the 18th century, the Imperial Treasury of Vienna attested that this was a real demon which had been trapped in glass during an exorcism in Germany a century earlier. From the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna..
