Kunsthistorischemseum, 2022: The Rest

And now, for some never-before-seen-on-this-blog pix of paintings we liked on our recent visit to Vienna's Kunsthistorischemuseum...

Before beginning the regular collection, we visited
a special exhibition on the young Cranach, his 
earliest work and influences on him; here, Rest on the
Flight to Egypt, 1515; not something you'd attribute
to the mature Cranach

Jan Steen, Beware of Luxury, 1663; we love Steen's gently
moralizing humor

Never miss an Avercamp...Hendrik Averamp's Winter Landscape,
1665

Cranach's inappropriately titled Paradise, 1530; actually it's about 
all the incidents that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Paradise

Cranach's Lot and Hs Daughters, 1528

Albrecht Durer, Madonna with the Pear, 1515

Durer, The Torment of the Ten Thousand Christians,
1508; it's a long story

Love the way Durer painted himself into the
scene as a spectator, along with the humanist 
Conrad Celtis

Titian, Christ with the Orb, 1520

OK, it's break-time and we are heading for the restaurant; but
also looking for the spandrel with the Klimt ladies...I know I
pictured one in 2012 or so, but here's both of them...seemingly very 
out of place in this museum of art history, but so welcome, too

Caravaggio, Crowning of Thorns, 1603

Poussin, Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Titus, 1628;
never miss a Poussin

The KHM has several portraits of the Infanta Margaret, sent to
her bethrothed, Emperor Leopold, so he could see how she was
growing; Velasquez' blue dress version, is second from the left

Workshop of Velasquez, Philip IV of Spain, 1656

Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo, Family of the Artist, 1664;
del Mazo was Velasquez' son-in-law and successor as royal painter;
on the left are children by his first marriage; on the right his wife
and their children; what's interesting are the numerous allusions
to Las Meninas, Velasquez' great masterpiece

Arcimboldo, Fire, 1566, from his Elements series;
alternate title: Hair on Fire

Obligatory Rafael, Madonna of the Meadows, 1505

Luini, Mary with Child, 1510; never miss a
Luini

Finally (we missed it earlier), Bosch,
Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1490; the
details with Bosch are always illuminating...
note, e.g., the priest, bottom right, with
Bible...

On the reverse (always look on the reverse
on panels), Baby J with his baby walker;
alluding to the Trinity, of course

Half the KHM is other stuff, not painting, plus
room after room of classical, near eastern, and
Egyptian stuff...next time, allow two days for the
KHM

Great museum!