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Collection

Picture Gallery

• Jan van Eyck
  Jan van Eyck
  
  Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painting active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
  : "Cardinal Niccolò Albergati" ("Kardinal Niccoló Albergati"), 1438
• Albrecht Dürer
  Albrecht Dürer
  
  'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
  : "Adoration of the Trinity" (Anbetung der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit), 1511
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  
  Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italy Painting best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the...
  : "Summer" (Sommer), 1563
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio:
• "Madonna of the Rosary" (Die Rosenkranzmadonna) 1606/07
• "The Crowning with Thorns"
• "David with the Head of Goliath"
• Peter Paul Rubens
  Peter Paul Rubens
  
  Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....
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• "Ildefonso Altar" (Der Altar des hl. Ildefonso), 1630-32
• "The Fur" (Das Pelzchen), 1638
• Raphael
  Raphael
  
  Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
  : "Madonna of the Meadow
  Madonna del Prato (Raphael)
  
  The Madonna with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist is a 1506 painting by Raphael, now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna....
  " (Madonna im Grünen), 1506
• Johannes Vermeer
  Johannes Vermeer
  
  Johannes or Jan Vermeer was a Dutch people Baroque painting painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life....
  : "The Artist in his Studio" (Die Malkunst), 1665/66
• Diego Velázquez
  Diego Velázquez
  
  Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez was a Spain painting who was the leading artist in the Noble court of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait painting....
  : Several portraits of the spanish royal family, a branch of the Habsburg, sent to Vienna.
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder
  Pieter Brueghel the Elder
  
  Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting Painting and printmaking known for his landscape art and peasant scenes ....
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• "The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
  The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
  
  The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil painting on panel work painted by Pieter Bruegel in 1559. This painting depicts a common festival of the period, as celebrated in the Southern Netherlands....
  " (Kampf zwischen Fasching und Fasten), 1559
• "Children's Games" (Kinderspiele), 1560
• "The Tower of Babel
  The Tower of Babel (Brueghel)
  
  The Tower of Babel is an oil painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Its subject is the construction of the Tower of Babel, which according to the Bible was a tower built by humanity to reach heaven....
  " (Turmbau zu Babel), 1563
• "The Procession to Calvary" (Kreuztragung Christi), 1564
• "The Gloomy Day
  The Gloomy Day
  
  The Gloomy Day is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. The painting is one in a series of six works, five of which are still extant, that depict different times of the year....
   (Feb.-Ma.)" (Düsterer Tag (Vorfrühling)), 1565
• "The Return of the Herd
  The Return of the Herd
  
  The Return of the Herd is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. The painting is one in a series of six works, five of which are still extant, that depict different times of the year....
   (Oct.-Nov.)" (Heimkehr der Herde (Herbst)), 1565
• "The Hunters in the Snow
  The Hunters in the Snow
  
  The Hunters in the Snow is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. The painting is one in a series of six works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year....
   (Dec.-Jan.)" (Jäger im Schnee (Winter)), 1565
• "The Peasant and the Nest Robber" (Bauer und Vogeldieb), 1568
• "The Peasant Wedding" (Bauernhochzeit), 1568/69
• "The Peasant Dance" (Bauerntanz), 1568/69

• Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
• Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities
• Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts
• Coin Cabinet
• Library

Hofburg

• Ephesus
  Ephesus
  
  Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League....
  -Museum
• Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
• Collection of Arms and Armour
• Archive
• Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasury (in the Schweizerhof)

others

• Museum of Carriages and Department of Court Uniforms (in Schönbrunn Palace
  Schönbrunn Palace
  
  Sch?nbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria and since the 1960s has also been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna....
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• Collections of Ambras Castle
  Ambras Castle
  
  Schloss Ambras/Amras/Omras is a schloss in Innsbruck, Austria. Situated in the hills above Innsbruck the Castle of Ambras is one of the most important sights of the city....
   (in Innsbruck
  Innsbruck
  
  Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
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• Museum of Ethnology in the Neue Burg (affiliated in 2001);
• Lipizzan
  Lipizzan
  
  The Lipizzan or Lipizzaner , is a list of horse breeds of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria where the finest representatives demonstrate the haute ecole or "high school" movements of classical dressage, including the highly controlled, stylized jumps and other movements known as the "airs abo...
  er-Museum in the Stallburg;
• the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz
  Palais Lobkowitz
  
  Palais Lobkowitz, or Palais Dietrichstein-Lobkowitz, is a baroque palace in Vienna. It was owned by the noble Lobkowitz family....
  

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