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Music in Slovakia
W IX w. together with Christianity, the Byzantine and Latin liturgical chants penetrated the Slavic lands, the latter, in the form of chorales, they became popular mainly thanks to the Benedictine monasteries. At the same time it was developing …
Sculpture and painting in Slovakia
The concept of "Slovak art” is not the same as the term "art in the area of today's Slovakia”, artistic activity flourished here long before the establishment of the Slovak state, and even before the Slavs came. National art began to emerge in parallel …
Oskar Kokoschka and others – Vienna – Belweder
Works by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) gathered in the permanent exhibition in the last two rooms come mainly from the first ten years of their stay in Vienna, creative and fertile years. After 1915 r. Kokoschka came back here enough …
Egon Schiele – Vienna – Belweder
Klimt actively supported younger artists, np. Egona Schiele (1890-1918), to whom two more rooms are dedicated. He introduced them to his patrons, he exhibited their works at the exhibitions he organized, and even, as was the case …
Gustav Klimt – Vienna – Belweder
Works of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) are in the second room, next to the works of contemporary artists: Kolo Mosera, Carla Molla i Maxa Kurzweila. Ethereal image, a woman in the Portrait of Sonja Knips, as if absent by thoughts (1898) this first …
Velazquez, Belotto i Canaletto – Art History Museum – Vienna
In the room 9 i 10 you can get acquainted with the canvases of the Spaniards. Portrait of Don Carlos by Alonso Sanchez Coello depicts the mentally and physically handicapped son Philip II, who was imprisoned by …
Raphael, Bronzino i Caravaggio – Art History Museum – Vienna
Collections of the hall 3 they range from representatives of northern Italy to the founders of the mannerist school of Emilia. The museum's most erotic work is that of Jupiter and Io. It came from the brush of Antonio Correggio (ok. 1489-1534), Io …
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 the influence of Giovanni Bellini, in which studio he apprenticed. …
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 …