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0 Kunsthistorisches Museum Second floor IV VII Portrait of the Infanta VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Margarita Teresa (1659)
VIII VIII Diego Velázquez captures the
More than one and a half million people visit the Museum of III fragility of the eight-year-old Practical Information
the History of Art every year. Its collections are based largely on IX IX Spanish princess in all her finery Maria-Theresien-Platz, A-1010.
those built up over the centuries by generations of Habsburg II in this official portrait. Map 3 C1 & 5 B5. Tel 525240.
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun
monarchs. Originally the works of art were housed in the X X (to 9pm Thu); Jun–Aug daily.
Hofburg and the Belvedere, but when the Ringstrasse I XI XI Closed 1 Nov, 25 Dec. & 8 9
was built (see pp34–5), two magnificent buildings were 7 ^ ∑ khm.at
erected to house the collections of imperial art and XII XII Transport
natural history. The former are on display in this 4 4 % Museumsquartier, Volkstheater.
museum, where lavish internal decoration XIII 5 5 6 @ 57A. v D, 1, 2, 71.
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Coin collection III III 8
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Eastern and Greek, Roman
II VIII VI VI 11 Gemma Augustea antiquities and Kunstkammer
The Emperor Augustus dressed
III 12 Ground floor as Jupiter sits next to Roma, the collections. The first floor holds
the painting collections, and
14 VII VII personification of Rome, in this
XIII Roman cameo carved from onyx. on the second floor is one of
IX 13 13 the largest and greatest coin
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. Hunters in the Snow (1565) 17 XI XVI X
The last painting in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s series of 24 XVIII VIA IX
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the seasons shows hunters returning to the village on 18 XIV VI
a winter’s day. VIII
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. The Artist’s Studio XX I
In this 1665 allegory of art, 21
Johannes Vermeer shows First floor XXII
an artist in decorative dress
painting a model posing as XXIV
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Clio, the Muse of History. XXXVII
XXV King
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. Salt Cellar (1540–3) XXVI XXXIII XXXIV Sculpted around
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Benvenuto Cellini’s sumptuous XXVII XXXI 1460 BC, Thutmosis III
gold Saliera shows the sea and XXXII is depicted in the
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earth united, represented by XXX style typical of the Late
a female earth goddess and XXVIII Kingdom period.
the sea god Neptune. XXIX
The Apotheosis of the Renaissance
Many prominent artists were employed to decorate the museum’s
interior. As part of an extravagant decorative scheme, the
Key to Floorplan Main entrance Hungarian painter Michael
from Maria- Munkácsy contributed a
Egyptian and Near Eastern Theresien-Platz fabulous trompe l’oeil ceiling
collection
painting for the main
Collection of Greek and Roman
antiquities Rotunda staircase, depicting The
Apotheosis of the Renaissance
Kunstkammer (chamber of
curiosities) (1890). It features Leonardo,
Raphael, Michelangelo,
Picture gallery Veronese, Titian and
Coin cabinets
their models, all presided
Non-exhibition space over by Pope Julius II.
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