Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna [Paperback]

Martina Fleischer (Author), Bettina Hagen (Author), Claudia Koch (Author)

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Publication Date: August 10, 2006

Several important museums in Europe began their life attached to academies of art. One of the very few that survives encased within an art school is the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. It became the first public museum in Vienna, thanks to a bequest of 740 Old Master paintings, including Bosch, Rubens and Dutch Italianate landscapes, from Count Anton Lamberg in 1822, making it the greatest collection of paintings in Austria after the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Count Lamberg was not the only benefactor of the academy. In 1838, the Emperor Ferdinand gave over eighty Italian paintings, but these had all been looted from Venetian churches and palaces and by the time the academy had finished an expensive restoration programme, it was forced to hand them all back in 1919. The other notable donation of Italian pictures was by Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein of fifty-eight paintings, including most of the Cinquecento panels in the collection as well as some nineteenth century wor

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Product Details

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Scala Publishers (August 10, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857594150
ISBN-13: 978-1857594157
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,733,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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