Author: Kunstihistorisches Museum (Wien).Publisher:
ISBN: 9783990200490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Masterpieces of the Imperial Secular Treasury Vienna
Author: Kunstihistorisches Museum (Wien).Publisher:
ISBN: 9783990200490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A Tour Through the Imperial Treasury Vienna
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9783990201053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Secular Treasury offers a unique panorama covering over a millennium of European history. This is the home of the most important collection of medieval royal objects: the insignia and jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, including the Imperial Crown and the Holy Lance. Further highlights include the Crown of Emperor Rudolf II. (which later on became Crown of the Austrian Empire), as well as the vestments and other precious items of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Exceedingly valuable gems, including one of the world's largest emeralds, bear witness to the Habsburgs’ former degree of power. In earlier centuries, two items were considered to be so unique that they were declared "inalienable heirlooms of the House of Austria": a giant narwhal tooth which was thought to be the horn of a unicorn and an agate bowl from Late Antiquity which was thought to be the legendary Holy Grail. 0The Ecclesiastical Treasury offers a fascinating journey through the history of art, piety and religion. The items here tell of the medieval cult of relics, from the Catholicism of the Habsburgs to the era of the Counterreformation, of rulers’ post-baroque piety and Austrian folk religiosity.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Author: Manfred Leithe-JasperPublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 9781857591255
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The secular and ecclesiastical Treasury at the Hofburg in Vienna keeps outstanding symbols of more than 1000 years of European history, from the insignia and imperial jewels of the Holy Roman Empire to precious relics and robes. Important pieces of this collection are presented in full colour with informative text.
The Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasuries
Author: Kunsthistorisches Museum WienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Imperial Treasures
Author: Manfed SellinkPublisher: Lannoo Publishers
ISBN: 9789020962024
Category : Painting, Flemish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna possesses one of the most important collections of old masters in the world. These great works of art were gradually collected through the centuries by the archdukes of Austria and the later emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Following the marriage in 1477 between Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian of Austria, there were close links between the ruling house of Habsburg and the Low Countries, a situation which continued until the end of the Ancien Regime in 1789. In a series of essays by leading scholars, this book explores the history of the collection and the emergence of the various pictorial genres. The exceptionally early development of history, portrait, landscape and genre painting in the Low Countries laid the foundations for the unprecedented flowering of both Flemish and Dutch painting in the 17th century. Vienna has agreed to lend an outstanding selection of 54 top works, all dating from the 15th and 16th centuries and all originating from the Southern Netherlands. For a period of three months (from October 5th 2011 until January 15th 2012) paintings by Jan van Eyck, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, Gerard David, Michiel Sittow, Juan de Flandes, Jan Gossaert, Joos van Cleve, Joachim Patinir, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and other masters will supplement the already impressive collection of the Groeninge Museum in Bruges. This is the official catalogue of the event. ILLUSTRATIONS: 150 colour illustrations
Lonely Planet Pocket Vienna
Author: Lonely PlanetPublisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1837586020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Masterpieces of the Kunstkammer Vienna
Author: Kunstihistorisches Museum (Wien).Publisher:
ISBN: 9783990200377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Die hervorragendsten Kunstwerke der Schatzkammer des österreichischen Kaiserhauses
Author: Moving Women Moving Objects (400–1500)
Author: Tracy Chapman HamiltonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004399674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The present collection forges new ground in the discussion of aristocratic and royal women, their relationships with their objects, and how they, through this material record, navigated the often-disparate spaces of Byzantium, Eastern, and Western Europe from 400 to 1500.
Author: Vinzenz Oberhammer