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. Velázquez’s Infanta VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The Spanish artist Diego
Velázquez immortalized the Practical Information
eight-year-old Margarita Teresa Maria-Theresien-Platz.
(1659), the future wife of Map 2 A5.
Emperor Leopold I. Tel 525 24-0.
Open Jun–Aug: 10am–6pm daily
(until 9pm Thu); Sep–May:
10am–6pm Tue–Sun (until 9pm
Thu). & 9 7 ∑ khm.at
Transport
% Volkstheater, MuseumsQuartier.
v D, 1, 2, 71. @ 48A, 57A.

. Gemma Augustea
The famous Roman cameo,
carved with great precision
from onyx, shows the goddess
Rooms Roma and Emperor Augustus
1–7 welcoming his son Tiberius
after his heroic victory over
the barbarians in Pannonia.

King Thutmosis III
This king from the 18th
Dynasty (c.1500 BC) was one of
the fore most warriors of ancient
Egypt. He is depicted in the style
typical of the Late Kingdom period.

Hippopotamus
This blue ceramic figure from Middle-Kingdom
Egypt (around 2000 BC) was placed in the tombs
of important persons, to mark their status in society.

Decoration of the Museum
The museums built on Ringstrasse in the 1890s
were among the first to be designed with
particular collections in mind. Many prominent
artists were employed to decorate the interiors.
Their great masterpiece is the main staircase in
the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Hans Makart
created the symbolic scenes above the windows,
while Gustav and Ernst Klimt painted frescoes
depicting stages in the development of art. The
Apotheosis of the Renaissance (1890) is a fabulous
trompe l’oeil ceiling fresco by Michael Munkácsy. Apotheosis of the Renaissance

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