Kunsthistorischemuseum

That's German for art history museum. The KHM is one of our favorite museums. It was one of the first purpose-built public museums, it's beautiful (the Hapsburgs spared no expense in building it), they collected art for 700 years, and the collection is much to our liking with all its Cranachs and Breughels and Arcimboldos and others.

Kunsthistorischemuseum, part of the MuseumsQuartier

Marie Theresa presiding over it all

Looking up into the dome, as everyone does upon entering the building

Somebody killing a centaur

Cranach's "Judith"; compare Klimt's (earlier

post)

Lots of painters around

View from our lunch table, looking down from the dome

area, 2nd floor

Elder Breughel's Tower of Babel; after a few weeks in

Poland, Czech Republic, and now Hungary, we're really

beginning to relate to the Babel thing; fortunately, so far,

enough people speak enough English...

Another large Breughel

Breughel's "Hunters in Snow," said to be the first European

painting to depict snow

And, Breughel's "Conversion of Paul" (fairly well buried in

the larger canvass)

Vicki really likes Arcimboldos; I think

they're scary

Caravaggio's "Virgin of the Rosary"; I

thought the "Ascension of Salvador and

Gala" (Dali; see posts from Spain) was

the first work of art to depict dirty feet, but

no, it was Caravaggio, 300 years earlier

Half the KHM is its classical collection, which nearly rivals
the British Museum; what's especially cool about the KHM
is that each room is designed and decorated in accordance
with its artifacts

Aristotle

Display of Roman busts

Collection of Etruscan helmets

Second-largest ancient cameo yet found