Conserving the old from fear of the new

Antonio Canova: Theseus vanquishing the centaur Phereus, marble sculpture, photographed in the Theseus Temple, c. 1875

 

The Volksgarten with the Theseus Temple and the city walls, after an anonymous watercolour

 

Volksgarten, Theseus Temple

 

The Volksgarten with the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Naturhistorisches Museum

 

The Burgtor with the Court Stables, after a coloured copperplate engraving by Leopold Beyer

 

Paul Sprenger: The Central Mint Office at Vienna 1835–1838, watercolour

 

Andreas Fischer, Joseph Schemerl von Leytenbach: Front elevation of the new Polytechnic Institute, c. 1816–1818, pen-and-ink, washed