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Tag Archives: Titian
Dresden: old masters
The Alte Meister art museum is apparently one of Europe’s most significant. It’s chocka with gut-busting Rubens numbers and superbly executed but entirely standard portraits of forgettable – and forgotten – 18th century wigs, along with stacks of alternately – … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Graff, Botticelli, Canaletto, central Europe, classical art, Correggio, Dresden, Germany, Holbein, Titian
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oh no, those Habsburgs again…
I thought that yesterday had been my day of visiting Habsburg palaces, but it seems that in Vienna their influence runs deeper than that… Today I went to the Vienna art history museum, a very grand structure… …that, as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcimboldo, Austria, Brueghel, Caravaggio, classical art, Duerer, Gentileschi, Greece, Habsburg, Holy Roman Empire, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Roman Empire, Titian, Velasquez, Vienna
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