Research Catalog

Title

The Picture Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna / [edited by Renate Trnek and Martina Dervis ; translated into English by Martina Dervis and Malcolm Imrie].

Publication

London : Scala, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Trnek, Renate.
• Derviş, Martina.

Description

128 p. : col. ill., ports. (chiefly col.); 25 cm.

Summary

• "Contained within the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna's Gemaldegalerie can be compared to other great European collections housed in art academies, like Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera or the Galleria dell' Accademia in Venice. Its existence as a museum and the quality of the collection are a result of generous patronage. The gallery's most important paintings, by Bosch, Rubens, Rembrandt and Guardi, among others, were donated in 1822 by Count Lamberg-Sprinzenstein, who bequeathed his personal collection of more than eight hundred works to the Academy on condition that they were placed on public view. Many more donations were added over the years, as well as a large number of admission pieces and works that had won prizes awarded by the Academy.
• The result is a stunning collection of masterpieces of European art from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Highlights from the collection are illustrated in this beautiful guide."--Jacket.

Subject

• Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Gemäldegalerie > Catalogs
• Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Gemäldegalerie > History
• Kunstmusea
• Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Gemäldegalerie)
• Schilderijen
• Wenen (stad)

Genre/Form

• Catalogs
• History

Note

• Translated from the German.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Count Lamberg Picture Gallery -- 1. Early Netherlandish painting in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- 2. The last judgement triptych by Hieronymus Bosch -- 3. Lucas Cranch the Elder and early German painting -- 4. Italian painting from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century -- 5. Peter Paul Rubens and Flemish painting of the seventeenth century -- 6. Seventeenth-century Dutch bourgeois society in paintings -- 7. Italy as inspiration for Northern European artists -- 8. Italian and Spanish painting of the seventeenth century -- 9. Italian and French painting of the eighteenth century -- 10. The Vienna Academy around 1800.

ISBN

• 1857594150 (pbk.)
• 9781857594157 (pbk.)

OCLC

61529320

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library