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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 ...
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.
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The collections of art were subdivided into antiquities, sculpture and decorative art objects, painting, coins and medals as well as prints and drawings. This was undertaken when the Kunstkammern at the various Habsburg courts were broken up.
May 7, 2014 · The 93 artworks and artifacts that tell the story include arms and armor, sculpture, Greek and Roman antiquities, court costumes, carriages, decorative art objects, and paintings by such masters as Correggio, Giorgione, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian, and Velázquez. Key masterpieces that have never before traveled to the United States include:
Celebrating with Maria Theresa – the ceremonial paintings at Schönbrunn. They seem like a snapshot of a world long past: the large-scale ceremonial paintings that today still adorn the walls at Schönbrunn Palace, witnesses to an important epoch of courtly culture and the reign of Maria Theresa.
In his treatise Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste he describes the fate of artists in times of war. For many parts of the Holy Roman Empire the Thirty Years’ War had catastrophic consequences: economic crisis, devastation, mass deaths, depopulation and epidemics.
Apr 22, 2020 · Katie Hondorf. April 22, 2020. How Humboldt's ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists and critics, including the influential Hudson River school painters.
