All the Histories of Art: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna houses one of the greatest art collections in the world.
The collection includes antiquities from Egypt, Greece and Rome, as well as works of art from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The 16th century art, the Kunstkammer (art and treasure chambers) of Archduke Ferdinand and of Emperor Rudolph II, together with the baroque collections of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm form the nucleus of the Museums magnificent collections, in which the taste and artistic preferences of these and other connoisseurs of the Imperial Family are still discernible today.
The exhibition is divided into sex sections—Portraits, History, Religion and Mythology, Nudes, Still Life, Customs, and Landscapes. The exhibit aims to provoke thought and offer insight on this majestic collection by presenting masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum representing different periods, styles and media from the history of Western Art.
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Ancient versus contemporary art
The Collections from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna are the perfect definition of a late sixteenth century mannerist collection. The collection includes pieces dating from ancient Egypt to the eighteenth century.
Art collecting and its development over the centuries offer an idea of the tastes and tendencies that shaped the different artistic periods throughout Art History. It also provides a sense of the customs and ways of life found during each period. Private collections, such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum collection, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collections and the Peggy Guggenheim Collectionare the origin of many of the world’s leading museums.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, whose mission is to collect, preserve, present and interpret Modern and Contemporary Art, also gives us the chance to reflect upon and discover the common ground between the two institutions.
Genres in Art History: Portraits
The collection presented by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna allows visitors to discover, among other things, the artistic form and manner of presenting the human face from classical antiquity to the Renaissance and the Baroque period.
Portraits have had different functions over the history of Western art, from a funerary role in the case of Egyptian art, to a depiction of the sacred in the Middle Ages, to portraiture being proclaimed a separate genre in the Renaissance.
Portraits began to play an important social role, on many occasions serving to show the power and wealth of the aristocracy, diplomats, merchants and tradesmen, often time conveying an idealized beauty. Early on, portraits were considered a symbol of the privileged social classes, but as the practice developed over time, portraits became popular and more commonly seen in different social echelons.
Resources
Library
- Falomir, Miguel. El retrato del Renacimiento. Ediciones el Viso, 2008.
- Waldmann, Susan. El artista y su retrato en la España del Siglo XVII. Editorial Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2007.
- Chauveau, Sophie. Botticelli. Retrato en claroscuro. Editorial Edhasa, Barcelona, 2007.
- Nancy, Jean–Luc. La mirada del retrato. Editorial Amorrortu Editores, Madrid, 2007.
- Several authors. El retrato español en el Prado. Editorial Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2007.
- Several authors. El retrato español en el Museo del Prado: De Goya a Sorolla. Editorial Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2007.
- Alarcó, Paloma/Warner, Malcom. El espejo y la máscara. El retrato en el siglo de Picasso. Editorial Fundación Colección Thyssen–Bornemisza, Madrid, 2007.
- Berger, John. Sobre las propiedades del retrato fotográfico. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2006.
- Several authors. Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait. Editorial Abrams, Londres,
- Mullins, Charlotte. Painting People: Figure Painting today. Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2006.
- Several authors. La mirada ajena: el retrato en la colección Ordoñez–Falcón de fotografía. Editorial Artium, 2002, Centro–Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, 2005.
- Quirke, Stephen/Spencer, Jeffrey. El Antiguo Egipto. En el Museo Británico. Editorial Alianza Editorial. Madrid, 2004.
- Janson, H.W. "Historia general del arte, 1. El Mundo Antiguo". Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1995.
- Faure, Elie. Historia del arte, 1: El arte antiguo. Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1990.
- Hoja didáctica en torno a la exposición Rubens y su época, 2 oct., 2002–16 feb., 2003. Materiales didácticos del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
Newspaper archive
- El retrato español en el Prado. Del Greco a Goya
- El Kunsthistorisches de Viena acogerá en 2005 una gran exposición sobre Goya
- “El espejo y la máscara”, el retrato en el arte del siglo XX
- Revista de Arte Logopress
- Revista Arte y Parte nº 24:
- EL BODEGÓN ESPAÑOL:
- “La fascinación de la naturaleza muerta española” Gabriele Finaldi
- “La caja de tabaco” Valeriano Bozal
- LA NATURALEZA MUERTA CONTEMPORÁNEA:
- “Objetos del deseo” Margit Rowell
- “Eduardo Arroyo–Luis Gordillo. Una conversación”
- “Después del arte” Peter Halley
- “No abolir jamás el azar. Octavio Paz y las artes visuales” Dore Ashton
- “Rafael Pérez–Mínguez. Qué bien sabía él quién era” Ángel González García
- EL BODEGÓN ESPAÑOL:
- Revista Arte y Parte nº 2:
- “Una revisión ‘postmoderna’ del arte del siglo XIX” Francisco Calvo Serraller
- Exit Express, Revista de Información y debate sobre arte actual, nº 25, feb. 2007:
- Exit Express, Revista de Información y debate sobre arte actual, nº 13, jun.–sep., 2005:
- Exit Express, Revista de Información y debate sobre arte actual, nº 7, nov. 2004:
“Muchos museos, pocos museos, ningún museo” Rosa Olivares
- Exit Express, Revista de Información y debate sobre arte actual, nº 8, dic.–ene., 2004:
- Lápiz. Revista Internacional de Arte, nº 225, julio 2006:
- Lápiz. Revista Internacional de Arte, nº 210–211, feb.–mar., 2005:
- “El arte como significado/Art as meaning” Galder Reguera
