Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

The exhibition comprises artworks and other precious objects from the collections assembled by connoisseurs from the House of Habsburg – by Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and other powerful rulers who commissioned or acquired fabulous artworks for their palaces and Kunstkammer collection that are now in the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The majority of these works have never been on show outside Austria.

The exhibition is organized along historical lines and showcases world-spanning Habsburg power: from their rise in the late Middle Ages to the apex of their power in the 16th and 17th century to the dynasty’s further expansion in the 18th and 19th century to the final demise of the Empire in 1918. The artifacts comprise arms and armor, sculptures, Greek and Roman antiquities, court robes and uniforms, carriages and paintings by Correggio, Giorgione, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian and Velázquez.
The exhibition is curated by Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner, Director of the Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna.