Caravaggio at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

It belongs to a rare breed of museums that reveal the highest artistic achievements of mankind since ancient times. In Russia, the Museum named after. Pushkin. The art of Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome is combined here with a collection of paintings by Dutch, Italian, Flemish, and German masters from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The museum building itself is also noteworthy, opened in 1891 in conjunction with a “twin” museum, which houses a natural history museum.

1. The buildings for both museums are truly huge. Although each of them has only two floors, they look very impressive.

2. Between the museums lies Maria Theresa Square with a monument to her, surrounded by a now closed Christmas market (it was January 4th, the grass was green, the bushes had recently been trimmed with fresh leaves).

3. Upon entering the museum, we immediately find ourselves in the lobby, decorated with lush stucco paintings.

4. Having quickly completed all the formalities, such as buying tickets and putting things in the cloakroom, we go out to the main staircase. On the landing of the stairs stands the sculpture “Theseus Killing the Centaur” by Antonio Canova.

5. Imperial Lions.

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7. The walls are decorated with the monograms of Franz Joseph and Elizabeth, under whom the museum was built.

8. New Year.

9. Lamp above the main staircase.

10. It is decorated with a huge canvas “The Apotheosis of the Renaissance” by the Hungarian artist Mihaly Munkacsi.

11. From the stairs we find ourselves in the upper, even more magnificent lobby under a huge dome.

12. Now it is occupied by a cafe, in the center there is a well, looking into the lower lobby.

13. The side corridors are not inferior in splendor to the halls.

14. The paintings on the vaults reminded me of the Hermitage.

15. The second floor of the museum is completely devoted to painting.

16. An enfilade of large halls along the perimeter is surrounded by a number of smaller ones.

17. Paintings often hang in many rows; there are no captions for them. But there is an audio guide in Russian.

18. There are also sculptures in the halls, but not often.

19. Democrito Gandolfi, “Jacob and Rachel at the Well.”

20. Caesar.

Northern Italy was part of the Austrian Empire for a long time, so the museum has accumulated a huge number of works from almost all artistic styles of Italy - the early and High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Caravaggism, vedata masters of the 18th century, etc. The naked bodies of curvaceous southern beauties could not miss to this post.

21. Correggio, “Io and Jupiter” (1530).

22. Tintoretto, “Susanna and the Elders” (1555).

23. Dirk de Quad van Ravesteen, "Venus' Rest."

24. Parmigianino, “Cupid Making a Bow.” One cupid seems to have gotten sick.

25. Andrea del Sarto in the painting “Archangel Raphael with Tobias” the people were much better than the dogs)

26. It is impossible to imagine the European Middle Ages without paintings on religious themes. Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden on the theme of the crucifixion.

27. When the frame is almost equal in importance to the painting, an altar is obtained. It belongs to the brush of Albrecht Durer and is called “Adoration of the Holy Trinity” or “Landauer Altar” (1511).

28. Sebastiano Mainardi, “Virgin Nursing/Mammal-Nursing.”

29. Peter Paul Rubens, “The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier.”

30. Leonardo da Vinci’s student Andrea Solario, “Salome with the head of John the Baptist.”

31. For some reason, in Bernardino Luini’s story, Salome looks more cheerful.

32. Many paintings are devoted to the theme of the Last Judgment, like this painting by the Fleming Frans Floris.

33. Hell in the painting of David Reicart III.

34. Luca Giordano, “Archangel Michael Overthrows the Rebellious Angels.”

35. And this is not the Last Judgment, but “The Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola” by Rubens.

36. Many paintings show the theme of physical rather than spiritual death. Skulls in the painting “Allegory of Vanity” by Antonio de Pereda.

37. Maria von Oosterwijk, “Vanity of Vanities” (1668). The skull is depicted in a still life to enhance the feeling of the frailty of human life next to bouquets of flowers.

38. Guido Cagnacci. "The Death of Cleopatra" (1658).

39. It’s also fun to watch various reptiles on the canvases and the fight against them. For example, the confrontation between a tiger and a crocodile in Rubens’s great allegory “Four Continents and Four Great Rivers.”

40. The famous biblical scene “St. George Slaying the Dragon” by Leonhard Beck.

41. Raphael, “Saint Margaret” (and “snake cat”).

42. “The Severed Head of Medusa” by Rubens.

43. Let's leave the Renaissance and move on for a while to calmer later subjects. David Teniers the Younger, "Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his picture gallery." The European tradition of using paintings instead of wallpaper is funny.

44. Samuel Dirks van Hoogstraten, almost all of whose paintings depict a man in a window.

45. Lorenzo Lotto, “Portrait of a Man.”

46. ​​Bernardo Bellotto, view of Vienna in the 18th century.

47. Schönbrunn Palace.

48. An artist has been working here for many years, making copies of paintings. You can almost always find her in the halls. A bamboo stick serves as a support for her to draw out small details.

49. Here you can enjoy the fun of the early 20th century - stereo photographs.

50. Next I will show pictures that were familiar to me before visiting the museum. This is Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524).

51. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Tower of Babel” (1563) is probably the most famous painting in this museum.

52. King Nimrod, the legendary conqueror of Babylon in the 2nd millennium BC, came to inspect the construction site.

53. His “Peasant Dance” (1568).

54. “The Battle of Maslenitsa and Lent” (1559).

55. The painting depicts a holiday held in Medieval France and Holland on the last day of the carnival before Lent and consisted of a comic battle between the Maslenitsa retinue and supporters of Lent.

56. “Hunters in the Snow” (1565).

57. A small but separate room is reserved for the famous paintings of Arcimboldo.

58. “Winter” from the “Seasons” series.

59. “Water” from the “Elements” series.

60. The top of the head is larger.

61. “Fire” from the “Elements” series.

62. “Summer” from the “Seasons” series.

63. It would seem, what should a blind person do in an art museum? But the meticulous Austrians also worried about them.

64. Here is a portrait of a jester by Jean Fouquet.

65. And here is its version for the blind.

66. Having finished with painting, let's go down to the first floor to continue the inspection.

67. There is a good collection of various objects of Austrian art.

68. Sculpture, jewelry, various little things - everything is here.

69. Due to identification difficulties, there will be no captions above the photo, unfortunately.

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74. Dutch boxwood prayer nut - iconostasis in your pocket.

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85. Finally, we reached the exhibition of ancient art. The most magnificent is the Egyptian Hall, where the ceiling is supported by original granite columns taken from Egypt.

86. Various images of the god of wisdom and knowledge Thoth, 6th century BC.

87. A bunch of small things, like in the Cairo market.

88. The Egyptians caught HIM and are now cutting him up.

89. Dried Nile crocodiles.

90. The outer layer of the funeral “matryoshka doll”.

91. A bunch of sarcophagi.

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93. Collection of Greek vases of the V-VI centuries BC.

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95. After the capture of Egypt by the Roman Empire, the Egyptians began to attach portraits of the buried, made in the Hellenic style, to the mummies. This woman with the necklace lived from 161-192 AD.

96. A mosaic from an ancient Roman villa depicting the labyrinth of the Minotaur was transferred entirely from Salzburg.

97. Tiled lion from the gate of the goddess Ishtar in Babylon (604-562 BC). The entire gate is in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

98. In general, the Vienna Art Museum leaves an indelibly positive impression. It should be noted with what care the individual illumination of the exhibits in the ancient sculpture department was done.

The Museum of Art History is one of the largest in the world, and the masterpieces of Western European authors kept here attract tourists from all over the world. And opposite there is a magnificent one. Both buildings were built in the Renaissance style.

It was only in 1776 that the collection of paintings became available to the general public.

It is the art gallery that attracts the most visitors; it is the 4th in the world in terms of the number of paintings. The works of such famous authors as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Anthony van Dyck, Rembrant van Rijn, Titian are presented here. The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Art History is amazing. Here you will see a collection of reliefs, architectural fragments, papyri, scarabs, figurines made from a variety of materials, sarcophagi and objects of funeral rites, amulets and magnificent jewelry.

The collection of gold and silver items from the Migration Period in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna will tell you a lot about the luxury goods that were popular at different times. Here you can see jewelry of the finest work, which is decorated with precious stones, the cost of which is simply shocking. But you also need to get acquainted with the “cultural diamonds” -.

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MUSEUM OF ART HISTORY IN VIENNA(Kunsthistorisches Museum) - one of the largest museums in the world, whose collection contains famous masterpieces of Western European art, was opened on October 17, 1891. Currently, it is the property of the state, is under its protection, and is administered by the Ministry of Culture.

The museum project was developed by architects Karl Hasenauer and Gottfried Semper. The museum building is one of the twin buildings included in the museum ensemble, built in 1871–1891. The Museum of Art History and the Museum of Natural History stand on two sides of the square, in the center of which is the majestic monument to Empress Maria Theresa by Zumbusch.

The main building of the museum includes 91 rooms, where there is a collection of oriental and Egyptian antiquities, a collection of ancient monuments, works of Western European sculpture, a numismatic cabinet, as well as a world-famous art gallery.

HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM CREATION

The art collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum was originally a private collection of the Austrian Imperial House. Emperors, kings, and archdukes from the Habsburg dynasty collected works of art starting from the 15th century.

A fundamental contribution to the formation of the modern museum was the activity of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529–1595), stadtholder (governor) of Bohemia in 1547–1563 and ruler of the Alpine lands in 1564–1595, who assembled his collection at Ambras Castle according to truly museum standards. Subsequently, the best things from this collection were taken to Vienna.

Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612) established an art gallery and a Kunstkamera in Prague Castle, where he moved the capital of the empire. Most of all, Rudolf II admired the works of Albrecht Dürer and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, which are now the pride of the Vienna Museum. Later, the most significant items were transported to Vienna, which became the capital of the Austrian Habsburg Empire, which included almost all of Central and Southern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the Southern Netherlands.

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614–1662) is considered the founder of the Vienna Museum. From 1647 to 1656, the Archduke was stadtholder (governor) of the Southern Netherlands. In Brussels, which at that time was the center of the art trade, he acquired picturesque values. After the fall of Charles I, extensive collections of the English aristocracy (Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Arundel), as well as some paintings from the collection of King Charles I, which were purchased by Leopold William, were brought from England after the fall of Charles I for auction. In a short time he created the best art gallery in Europe. His collection included paintings by Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Andrea Mantegna, Tintoretto, Jan van Eyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens.

During the reign of Empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780), it was decided to improve the art gallery: following the ideas of enlightenment, the artistic treasures were opened to the public, and a new systematization of the collection was made. For this purpose, the most artistically significant works of art were brought from all the palaces, residences, and castles that belonged to the empress. For the first time, the exhibition was based on a historical principle: the paintings were grouped by national schools and hung in chronological order.

The imperial collections were available to the public even before the official opening of the Museum of Art History, but were scattered in different places. The Imperial Art Gallery was formerly located in the Upper Belvedere Castle, the collection of Egyptian, Oriental, Greek and Roman art, Renaissance objects made of gold, bronze and ivory, as well as works of the Baroque era - in the Lower Belvedere Castle. Many masterpieces of decorative art, including dynastic regalia and family jewels of the Habsburgs, were kept in the treasury of the Hofburg, the imperial palace. Several halls of the Hofburg housed coins and medals, as well as collections of minerals, shells and other natural wonders, which are now part of the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum).

Even before the official opening of the Kunsthistorisches Museum by Emperor Franz Joseph (1830–1916) in 1891, its various departments were reclassified and made available to visitors. First among them was the armory (Leibstrammer), a memorial to Austrian military glory, with armor and weapons. Nowadays the military collection (Waffen-Samlung) is exhibited in the Court, Hunting and Armory halls of Neueburg Castle, which is an outbuilding of the old Hofburg Castle. In the Hofburg, in turn, the Museum of Ancient Musical Instruments, the Ephesus Museum and other exhibitions are open. These collections, as well as the collections in Stalburg, Schönbrunn Castle and Ambras Castle near Innsbruck, although scattered, form a single property of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

In 1918, the Vienna Museum, like all Habsburg collections, was expropriated and became a state property.

The museum building was heavily damaged during the Second World War, but the monuments were mostly removed and hidden in 1939. In 1959 the museum was again opened to visitors.

PICTURE GALLERY OF THE MUSEUM OF ART HISTORY

The most significant part of the Museum's collection is the art gallery. It is considered the fourth largest in the world and includes paintings of exceptional value by Western European artists from the 14th to 18th centuries.

Dutch art section

15th–16th centuries includes works by the luminaries of Northern Renaissance painting - Jan van Eyck (c.1390–1441), Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400–1464), Hugo van der Goes (c.1440–1482), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/ 1530–1569).

Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolo Albergati(c.1431), Jeweler Jan de Leeuw(Leeuva) (1436).

Rogier van der Weyden owns the altarpiece Triptych with crucifix(c.1440-1445), and Hugo van der Goes - a diptych Original sin And Lamentation of Christ (1475).

The world's largest collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is of enormous value - half of the entire surviving heritage of the 16th century Dutch artist. (15 works). The most significant works of the painter are landscapes that were originally part of the cycle Seasons of six paintings (1565): Return of the Hunters(Winter), Cloudy day (Spring Eve), Return of the Herd(Autumn), as well as two compositions on a rural theme: Peasant wedding And Peasant dance(c.1568).

Flemish painting

The museum features a collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Jacob Jordaens (1599–1641), and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). Peter Paul Rubens: Altar of St. Ildefonso (1630–1632), Portrait of Elena Fourman, usually called Coat(c. 1638), Self-portrait(c. 1639).

Jacob Jordaens: Bean King Festival(c. 1638).

Anthony van Dyck: Prince Ruprecht (with Great Dane), Prince Karl Ludwig of the Palatinate (1631/1632), Portrait of a warrior gilded armor(c. 1624), etc.

Section of Dutch painting

the museum is small, but full of genuine masterpieces by Frans Hals (1580/85–1666), Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), John Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), and Gerard Terborch (1617–1681).

Frans Hals: Portrait of a man(c. 1654).

Gerard Terborha: Lady peeling an apple (1661).

Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn: Portrait of the artist's mother (1639), Large self-portrait (1652), Small self-portrait(c. 1657) and Portrait reading Titus(c. 1656).

Late painting by Johannes Vermeer of Delft In the artist's studio(c. 1665) often called Allegory of painting.

Section of German art

filled with masterpieces of the Renaissance: Albrecht Durer (1471–1528), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) and others.

Of the eight works of Albrecht Dürer, the following should be highlighted: Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian I (1519), Mary with baby(1512) and one of the artist’s main works - an altar image Adoration of all saints of the Trinity (1511).

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Deer Hunting by Elector Frederick the Wise (1529), Judith with head Holofernes(c. 1530).

Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England (1536),Portrait of a young merchant (1541).

The Italian collection is famous for its abundance of names and masterpieces of the Renaissance, 17th–18th centuries: Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506), Raphael Santi (1483–1520), Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c. 1490 –1576), Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), Tintoretto (1518–1594), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) and others.

Andrea Mantegna: St. Sebastian(c. 1460).

Rafael Santi: Madonna in green (1505).

Among several paintings by Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), the central place is occupied by the painting Three philosophers(c. 1508).

Titian: altarpiece This man (1543), Portrait of Jacopo de Strada (1567–1568).

Paolo Veronese: Lucretia (1580).

Tintoretto (Jacobo Robusti): Susanna and the elders(c. 1560).

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi): Madonna with rosary(c. 1607) and David with Goliath's head(c. 1606).

Collection of Spanish paintings.

The main decoration is the work of Diego de Silva Velazquez (1599–1660). The court painter of the Spanish kings painted numerous portraits of the king, his children, and courtiers: Portrait of the Infanta Margherita-Theresa (1659), Portrait of King Philip IV (1652–1653).

DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT EGYPT AND ANCIENT EAST

The Egyptian collection of the Vienna Museum is not only one of the largest in the world, but also one of the oldest. Works of ancient Egyptian art began to flock to Vienna even before the pan-European interest in Egypt, which arose after Napoleon's military campaign in 1798. The oldest exhibit was acquired back in the 16th century, and by the first quarter of the 19th century. the collection consisted of almost 4,000 items. In the 20th century the main revenues came from archaeological research by Austrian scientists, especially in the necropolis of the Cheops pyramid in 1912–1929. The Vienna collection is of great importance for its excellent examples of sculpture from all periods of the history of Ancient Egypt. These include deeply realistic portraits of pharaohs, sculptures introducing us to important dignitaries, and meticulous depictions of animals. The halls contain a collection of reliefs, architectural fragments, figurines made of stone, bronze, wood and other materials, sarcophagi and objects of funeral rites, papyri, scarabs, amulets, and jewelry.

The museum halls in which this collection is located take us to the world of Ancient Egypt, not only because of the rich collection, but also thanks to the decorative and finishing works that brilliantly imitate the interior decoration of temples of that era. The architects used three original granite columns (c. 1420 BC), and also decorated the halls with paintings that replicate the frescoes of the burial chambers.

DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT ART

The antique collection includes Greek, Etruscan and Roman treasures, as well as treasures from the Great Migration era of the early Middle Ages, found during archaeological excavations. From the 16th century coins, medals, and carved stones were collected. In the 18th century scattered collections scattered throughout the vast Habsburg Empire were united, and archaeological expeditions of the 19th century. significantly enriched this section of the museum with objects of sculpture and architecture.

The crown jewel of the antiquity department is a series of unique cameos. Ptolemaic cameo(274–270 BC), made of nine-layer onyx, this masterpiece of Hellenistic glyptics depicts portraits of a married couple from the Ptolemaic dynasty. Gemma Augusta(end of the 1st century BC) - two-layer onyx of Roman work amazes with its multi-figure composition. Often, jewelers of subsequent eras used the works of their predecessors: Italian masters of the 16th century. decorated an antique cameo with a precious frame Eagle(27 BC).

The sculpture is represented by statues made of marble and bronze: Aristotle's head(4th century BC), Amazon sarcophagus(4th century BC), found in the 16th century. In Cyprus.

An interesting large collection of gold and silver items from the era of the Great Migration of Peoples, found in the 18th–20th centuries. in Europe: finely crafted jewelry, decorated with precious stones, a variety of vases and goblets.

KUNSTKAMERA

The exhibition of this department continues the collection of art of the early Middle Ages, covering the entire period of the European Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Rococo eras - up to the beginning of the 19th century. The core of this department was formed in the 16th–17th centuries. A group of the most significant exhibits comes from the treasury of German kings and emperors of the Middle Ages, the so-called. "imperial treasury" Items from this “golden pantry” clearly express the religious orientation of medieval art, while simultaneously continuing many traditions of the ancient world, the Ancient East, and Germany: Griffin-shaped jug(12th century). The museum has two excellent examples of medieval art: Madonna of Krumau(ca. 1400), Madonna by sculptor Riemenschneider(approx. 1500). Applied art in this section includes a variety of bowls, goblets, watches made of crystal, gold, precious stones and pearls in elaborate, luxurious shapes. The most famous exhibit is Salt shaker Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1572), made by the author (1540–1543) from gold, partially enameled, ebony for the French king Francis I. The Kunstkamera displays tapestries of the finest work, woven from wool and silk in the first half of the 18th century. Small-sized figurines and complex 17th-century ivory sculptural compositions amaze with their grace, sophistication and virtuosity of execution.

The halls of the Kunsthistorisches Museum display countless masterpieces of Western art, including the world's largest collection of paintings by Bruegel. The collections of the ancient world, Ancient Egypt and the East amaze with the richness of the cultures of the past.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is a collection of artistic objects, archaeological exhibits, ancient monuments, and numismatic rarities; an art gallery of world significance. The institution is administered by the Austrian Ministry of Culture.

Museum building

The museum is located on Maria Theresa Square, photo by Peter M.

The façade of the museum is lined with carved sandstone. The building has the shape of a rectangle topped with a 60-meter dome. The interiors are lavishly decorated with marble and plaster relief decoration. There are ninety-one rooms in the main building of the museum.

The building's design was created by the architect Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer in the mid-19th century.

History of the meeting

The museum collection was started by the Imperial House of Austria. The Habsburgs collected and preserved art and antiques from the 15th century. The largest contribution was made by Ferdinand II, who for a long time formed a collection of works of art in his castle. The best, rare examples from the Archducal heritage are presented in Vienna today.

Rudolf II also did a lot for the future museum. In Prague Castle he opened the Kunstkamera and founded an art gallery. From these collections, the most striking exhibits were also transported to the Vienna Museum. It was Rudolph who for a long time collected works by Bruegel the Elder, which are now the main pride of the painting exhibition of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his gallery

Historians call the founding father of the museum Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. For almost a decade he was governor of the Southern Netherlands. During this time, he managed to collect an extensive collection of paintings, buying them at auctions in Brussels. The gallery collected by Leopold-Wilhelm is considered the most comprehensive in Europe. It included paintings by Giorgione, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto and Rubens; works by Mantegna and Van Eyck.

The Habsburg treasures were opened to the public under Maria Theresa. The works were brought from many family castles, palaces, and private galleries and grouped according to geographical and chronological criteria. Objects of art were exhibited for a long time in several palaces: in the Upper Belvedere, in the Lower Belvedere, in.

The opening of the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum took place in 1889. Since 1918, this collection, like the entire Habsburg heritage, was expropriated in favor of the state. During World War II, the building on Maria Theresien-Platz was seriously destroyed, but the Austrians took out the bulk of the priceless works and hid them before the war. The museum reopened in 1959.

Art Gallery

The core of the museum collection was the art gallery. It presents paintings by Western European masters of the 14th–18th centuries. The section on Dutch painting contains paintings by van der Weyden and van Goes, Bruegel the Elder, and Jan van Eyck. The collection of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, presented in the Vienna Museum, is considered the greatest in Europe - here you can see half of all the works created by the painter over the years. The pearl of the collection are paintings from the famous “Seasons” cycle.

Peter Paul Rubens. photo Deborah and Thomas

Art gallery collections

• In Flemish section, the first to attract attention are the paintings of Rubens, with his colorful beauties. You cannot ignore the masterpieces of the Baroque – the works of Jacob Jordaens and the “airy” paintings of Van Dyck.
• Dutch There is little painting presented, but true masterpieces are collected here: paintings by F. Hals, G. Terborch, Rembrandt van Rijn, allegorical works by Jan W. Delft.
• The collection of paintings is especially rich German masters of the brush. Here you can see masterpieces of the Renaissance era: works by Albrecht Durer and Cranach the Elder, G. Holbein and many other painters. Displayed here is Dürer's iconic masterpiece: The Adoration of All Saints to the Trinity, a world-famous altarpiece.
• Names Italian The masters are impressive: Giorgione, Mantegna, Titian, Caravaggio. It is here that you can see “Madonna in the Green” by Raphael Santi and “Lucrezia” by Veronese. The pearl of the Spanish collection of the Vienna Museum is the work of Velazquez, his royal dynastic portraits.
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Ancient Egypt and Near East Collection

Ancient Egypt collection, photo by courthouselover

The Vienna Museum is famous not only for its artistic canvases. Its collections of ancient Egyptian and oriental treasures are considered the oldest in the world. Egyptian sculptures from different periods of the state's history are presented here. Architectural treasures and stone figurines, bronze and wooden items, papyri, sarcophagi and jewelry are displayed against the backdrop of interiors stylized as Egyptian temples and tombs.

The department of ancient art contains valuables from Etruscan, ancient Greek, Roman times: coins, figurines, medals and jewelry - many artifacts found during research at different times. The most striking exhibit is a collection of onyx cameos by Ptolemy. The extensive sculptural exhibition and the exhibition of jewelry items from the Great Migration era are interesting.

Kunstkamera

The museum's Kunstkamera is unique in its kind. It is decorated with silk tapestries from the early 18th century, as well as works of applied art made of precious metals and ivory.

Numismatic collection

The museum's numismatic collection is one of the world's five largest collections of coins, paper money, shares, orders and medals, and insignia. In total there are approximately 700,000 objects.

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Take the U2 metro to Museumsquartier station.

On the spacious Maria Theresa Square in Vienna, planned in 1870 as part of the Ringstrasse structure, two museums are located on both sides symmetrically to each other - the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Art History, built in 1872-1881 in the style of the Italian Renaissance, with balustrades decorated with statues of limestone people and a long façade with pelasts.

One of the main goals in Vienna was the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as it is known as one of the most valuable museums with a world-famous art collection and, above all, its art gallery.

The history of the gallery almost completely coincides with the history of the House of Habsburg, passionate collectors. Already during the time of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614 - 1662), works of art were temporarily housed in the stables of the imperial castle, reaching, according to the 1659 inventory, more than 1,400 paintings and sculptures!

And only under Emperor Franz Ferdinand it was finally decided to house various collections under one roof and therefore this museum, or rather the Palace, was built!!!

The ticket cost me 12 euros + free Russian audio guide. The museum is open every day except Monday from 10.00 to 18.00, Thursday from 10.00 to 21.00.

From the entrance I went to the right along the first floor, where the rooms of the Egyptian-Oriental collection are located.

Halls of Ancient Greek Culture

And ancient Roman halls - busts of Roman emperors.

Bust of Emperor Trojan - the best emperor according to the Romans themselves.

Bust of Emperor Hadrian (117 AD)

Ancient Roman rings and rings.

Ancient Roman eagle.

Having examined the first floor, I climbed the central staircase to the second floor, where the art gallery is located.

On the second floor there is also a cafe with prices usual for Vienna.

Fine art is represented by the works of such famous masters as Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Rubens, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Durer, Caravaggio, etc. However, see for yourself.

Paintings by the Spanish artist Velazquez (17th century)

Painting by Italian Caravaggio (late 16th century)

Painting by Andrea Solario (early 16th century)

Below is a painting of the great Raphael (early 16th century)

Painting by Italian artist Tintoretto (mid-16th century)

Painting by the Italian artist Veronese (1585)

Paintings by Ticinus (early 16th century)

Painting by Titian

But here are the paintings of the Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel (mid-16th century)

Pieter Bruegel. "Tower of Babel" (1563)

The famous painting by the great Flemish artist Rubens - "Fur Coat" (1638-1640) in the photo below.

And finally, paintings by the great German artist Albrecht Durer (early 16th century)

In general, I really liked the museum - it’s really great. There were few tourists and they were allowed to take photographs, the Austrians were great! The museum is a must see for anyone in Vienna.