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5 days ago · The robes of Christ, pastel pink and pastel blue with a metallic sheen, exemplify what's usually meant by "Venetian color" in painting. Jacopo Strada, by Titian (1567-1568). Photo: Tas Tóbiás. Jacopo Strada, by Titian (1567-1568) Few museums can boast 22 (!) paintings by Titian (1488-1576), one of the greatest of all.
It was the most successful exhibition ever hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: “Bruegel – Once in a Lifetime” made history. On show from October 2018 through January 2019, the world’s largest-ever exhibition of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569), complete with sensational loans, presented three-quarters of the Flemish master’s extant paintings and around ...
History of the collection. The Picture Gallery had its origins in the 16th and 17th centuries and by the end of the 18th century already existed for the most part in its present form. Great collectors of the House of Habsburg, such as Archduke Ferdinand II (1529–1595), Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612) and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614–1662 ...
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- Pieter Bruegel The Elder
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The paintings hang in tall galleries, but more or less at eye level. Which makes them easy to view, and the protective rails feature accessible, individual descriptions in both German and English. A hushed reverence pervades the rooms, ruined only slightly by the squeak of shoes on wooden floors and the waving of smartphones. Take a seat on the lov...
Many of Europe’s greatest artists from the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries lurk within these hallowed museum walls. But experts would probably say the works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder count as the most important. The Kunsthistorisches Museum owns the world’s largest Bruegel collection, featuring such wonders as the iconic Tower of Babel(ca. 1...
The rest of the collections on display include numerous other world-class masterpieces. Highlights for me: 1. Arcimboldo’s famous paintings of Winter, Summer, Water and Fire as faces Arcimboldo created all the anatomical features through the clever placement of themed objects. A pod of peas for the teeth in Summer’s face, an oil lamp for Fire’s low...
Although the collection more or less ends with the 18th century, you’ll also find works by Klimt from around 1890. But not where you might think to find them. Gustav Klimt, Ernst Klimt and Franz Matsch painted the areas between and around the arches and columns on the north wall of the main staircase. If you’re lucky, a Swarovski spotting scope opp...
The Tower of Babel. Bruegel’s monumental composition became the most famous, most often copied and varied classic depiction of the tower. Perspective is provided by the seemingly Flemish port which seems tiny in comparison with the tower. Painstakingly, and in encyclopaedic detail, Bruegel depicts countless technical and craftsmanship processes.
By the time he left Brussels in 1656, taking with him the bulk of his collection, which forms the core of the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, he had amassed a vast collection of paintings, sculpture and works of art, of which 617 paintings were works by Italian masters.
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) was among the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition, the first ever to be mounted in Austria, brings together more than forty of his major works and presents a survey of Rothko’s artistic career, from his early figurative paintings of the 1930s, through the transitional years of the 1940s to the groundbreaking mature works of the 1950s ...
