Newsweek Inc.
1969
ISBN: 060035301X
English
174 pages
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The sculptural elegance of the Kunsthistorisches —Vienna's renowned Art History Museum—is a noble frame for the imperial art treasures housed within: the masterpieces from the private collections of Austria's emperors, connoisseurs who assembled great works of art from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. In this book, with the director of the Museum's Picture Gallery as guide through its pages, the Museum's paintings are brought to life. One sees, as if on a private tour, works reflecting the scope of the personal tastes of Austria's rulers—from the riotous peasant scenes of Bruegel, obtained by the Archduke Ernest from the city of Antwerp, and the intense and solitary religious works of Mantegna, originally acquired by the Archduke Leopold William, to the dazzlingly clear colors of Durer and the refined sensuality of Giorgione. Here we find the entire range of European art.

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