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The KHM has long been our favorite museum, and probably still is, given our unusual art history interests. I posted on it in August of 2010, and promise not to duplicate any of the pix posted then. But to appreciate the full glory of the KHM, you must look at the 2010 pix.

The KHM has a number of Durers--we'll be seeing more of
him--this being a 1511 altar piece

The point of which is to call attention to Durer's little self-
portrait/promo in the lower right; some say Durer was the
first "real" artist, that is, doing art for art's sake (who was
Art? I have always wondered); and certainly the first real 
artist/business person/entrepreneur (everyone else was 
sucking up to dukes/popes/cardinals/kings for patronage
and commissions)

Holbein, Jr.'s Jane Seymour

In the very large Breughel room, copying the Peasant
Wedding--and skipping some of the biggest and best
Breughels anywhere--see the 2010 entry

Team Rubens; I love this painting--attributed to Peter Paul,
but noted that his students Wildens did the landscape,
Snyders did the animals, and Van Dyke extended in all four
directions

After lunch we climbed the new platform to
see the gorgeous Klimts that adorn the upper
walls in the great rotunda; a history of art,
sort of

One of the greatest of the Vermeers, his
Art of Painting

Jan van Eyck's portrait of a gold smith friend;
very old, van Eyck the first to extensively
use oil

Lorenzo Lotto's Goldmith in Three Views--tell me this is not
a 19th century work; no, 1530; part of the argument going
on then about which was the superior art, painting or
sculpture

Specimen from the Arcimboldo Room

Caravaggio's David and Goliath (Caravaggio himself
playing the part of Goliath)

And plenty of Velasquez and more; after
the paintings, we did the Egyptian and Greek
and Roman rooms, and more; another
wonderful day at the KHM!