Pictures
Titian and Venetians – Art History Museum – Vienna
The west wing is dominated by an impressive collection of paintings by Venetian painters, especially Titian (ok. 1488-1576). His earliest works, like the Gypsy Madonna in room I., reveal Giovanni's influence …
Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and the British – Art History Museum – Vienna
Rubens
The long-term rule of the Habsburgs in the southern Netherlands, the museum owes one of the world's largest collections of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), which takes up three rooms (20, XIII i XIV). looking …
Arcimboldo, Spranger i Van Dyck – Art History Museum – Vienna
In the room 19 enters the world of Rudolf II's court (1576-1612), an emperor with a melancholy disposition, who locked himself in the Prague Castle surrounded by astrologers, alchemists and artists. Rudolph, whose …
Dürer, Cranach i Holbein – Art History Museum – Vienna
In the next, in smaller rooms there is an excellent collection of German painting, especially representatives of the Danube school, a loose group of various German speakers, Sixteenth-century painters, inspired by the Danube landscape. In the room 16 there is a colorful one …
Bruegel and his contemporaries – Art History Museum – Vienna
To reach the works of Bruegel, you have to go through room IX, in which, among others,. works by a contemporary of Bruegel – Pietera Aertsena (ok. 1508-75). Aertsen, just like Bruegel, characters on their own …
Painting in Austria
Gothic church art is best presented in the collection of medieval paintings in the Orangery in Vienna's Lower Belvedere. Renaissance elements first appeared in the works of the Danube school, which combined landscape and religious themes. Among them are primarily Rueland Frueauf …
Word icon comes from Greek eikon – "Image”, "image”. Originally in Byzantium, this term was used to describe religious images, both in blackboard painting, and wall. Contemporaries, talking about the icon, they mean first of all the first meaning. Icons have always depicted …
The age-old rivalry between Glasgow and Edinburgh flared up again at the end of the 19th century., when the Scottish Royal Academy announced, that it will not accept works by West Coast artists. However, this prohibition did not last very long, and for …