- Ir al Contenido
- Menú principal
- Menú educación
- Menú servicios
- Buscador
- Utilidades
- Elegir Idioma
- Guía de accesibilidad
- Información legal y sindicación
You are here:
- Home
- Art program: Exhibition calendar
Art program
Temporary exhibition
All the Histories of Art: The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
October 03, 2008 - January 18, 2009
Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1640)
Penitent Mary Magdalene with her sister Martha
ca. 1620
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. nr. 683
- The collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna reflect the imperial tastes and interests of the House of Habsburg from the reign of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) to the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- This exhibition is divided into six thematic sections corresponding to the quintessential genres of art history—portraits; history, religion, and mythology; nudes; popular customs; still lifes; and architecture and landscapes—.
Introduction
In 1891 the Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830- 1916) inaugurated the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The building was born of the need to create a space to hold the imperial collections that the House of Habsburg had accumulated since the days of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and that would continue to grow until the fall of the Austro Hungarian Empire. These collections, a reflection of the tastes of the Habsburg emperors, their family relations, and five centuries of European diplomacy and politics, boast masterpieces of European painting and sculpture as well as scientific and decorative objects, tapestries, coins, armor, and works from antiquity that delighted those monarchs.
