The palaces of art and science

Robert Raschka: The opening of the Court Museum of Art History by Emperor Franz Joseph I on 17 October 1891, 1893, watercolour

 

‘Burg-Ring: view facing the suburbs with the Museums’

 

The Court Museums, before 1888, photograph

 

Volksgarten with the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Naturhistorisches Museum

 

Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

The Cupola Hall in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

The Cupola Hall in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

Floor of the vestibule in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

Staircase in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, c. 1910

 

Kunsthistorisches Museum: staircase with ceiling painting

 

Staircase in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

Kunsthistorisches Museum: Theseus slaying a centaur

 

Staircase in the Kunsthistorisches Museum with lunettes painted by Hans Makart

 

Staircase in the Kunsthistorisches Museum with lunettes painted by Hans Makart

 

Mihály von Munkácsy: Apotheosis of the Renaissance, 1888, ceiling painting above the main staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

 

Marble bust of Franz Joseph on the staircase, 1873, photograph

 

Hans Makart: Michelangelo’s Adam, lunette in the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum

 

Gustav Klimt: Classical Greece: Pallas Athene, spandrel in the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum