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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 ...
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.
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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.
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The fifth season of Sidedooraired this episode, "The Last Man Who Knew It All," about how Alexander von Humboldt, through science and art, inspired a key part of America's national identity. Some of the brightest minds and prominent scientific thinkers of the era embraced Humboldt’s expansive thinking: inspired by Humboldt’s early publications, Cha...
In my work on American landscape painting, I knew that Humboldt had inspired American artist Frederic Edwin Church to travel to South America and that his influential advice to landscape painters formed a substantial component of his second volume of Cosmos, published in English in 1849. Humboldt was a lifelong abolitionist and had supported John C...
Humboldt spent his lifetime increasing knowledge, and as that knowledge diffused, so too did the connection to his name. During the 19th century, towns, counties and streets across the U.S. bore his name; in the decade following his death, statues were erected in parks across the country. When the Nevada Territory petitioned for statehood in 1864, ...
Apr 22, 2020 · A Brush with Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church. How Humboldt’s ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists and critics, including the influential Hudson River school painters. Katie Hondorf. Public Affairs Specialist. April 22, 2020.
Feb 19, 2015 · 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 terrible life...
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.
