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The importance of art and artists for the Habsburgs. While craftsmen were already active at the Habsburg courts in the Middle Ages, there was as yet no specific system of patronage. This was to change with the reign of Maximilian I. In the sixteenth century, patronage of the arts and the collecting of art objects were part of the new image of ...
Feb 19, 2015 · By Eve M. Kahn. Feb. 19, 2015. MINNEAPOLIS — Géza von Habsburg, an art historian in suburban New York, would have inherited part of an Austrian empire if only his ancestors had not made some ...
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Art and ‘junk’ – the Habsburgs and their cabinets of art and curiosities. 1278–1835. Over the centuries the Habsburgs amassed a considerable hoard of artworks and objects from nature. The way in which these collections were handled – that is, acquired, organized and exhibited – reveals much about the prevailing spirit of the times.
Fliedl, Gottfried: „… das Opfer von ein paar Federn“. Die sogenannte Federkrone Montezumas als Objekt nationaler und musealer Begehrlichkeiten, Wien 2001 (Museum zum Quadrat 12); Haag, Sabine: Die Geschichte der Wiener Kunstkammer, in: Adriani, Götz (Hrsg.): Die Künstler der Kaiser. Von Dürer bis Tizian, von Rubens bis Velázquez.
Oct 18, 2015 · October 18, 2015 – January 17, 2016. More than ninety extraordinary masterpieces and rare objects from the imperial collections of the Habsburgs, one of Europe’s greatest royal families. Housed today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, these spectacular treasures, most of which have never before left Austria, demonstrate the immense ...
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Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. Renowned Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century.
