The glory that was Rome – Franz Joseph’s dream of an Imperial Forum

Franz Alt: ‘The old and new Burgplatz in Vienna with the Imperial Forum project’, 1873, watercolour

 

Franz Alt: ‘The old and new Burgplatz in Vienna with the Imperial Forum project’, 1873, watercolour

 

Photograph of Heldenplatz in Vienna taken from a hot-air balloon, c. 1900

 

Pierre-Denis Martin: Versailles in 1722

 

Model of the Hofburg complex including the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Natural Hisotry Museum, the Court Stables (today the MuseumsQuartier), Heldenplatz, Burggarten and Volksgarten, 1:200 scale, c. 1900