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The Vienna Museum of Art History’s collection is the best place to see and to understand what distinguishes a brilliant artist from the wonderful and the good from the mediocre. If you want not only to walk through the museum and enjoy the works of Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Raphael and Caravaggio, but also aspire to understand what distinguishes their works from those of their less famous contemporaries, this tour is for you.
In Peter Bruegel’s largest world collection, we’ll take a closer look at The Hunters in the Snow to understand why it was in the 20th century that this painting became the “cold distant peak of unattainable art“, and why it was a huge risk to choose such a controversial subject in the 16th century.
We will look at the requirements for Rubens’ work and see the difference between works made for his powerful commissioners and those created for his own pleasure. The Capture of Samson by his disciple Antonis van Dyck will make it clear to us which qualities of his work have allowed him to occupy a separate place in the history of art, at least equal to his teachers.
Vermeer’s work The Allegory of The Art and Caravaggio’s Madonna with the Beads will show us the most virtuoso showcase of mimesis, the main principle of Western aesthetics. And Parmigianino’s works in the contrary will show us the first attempts of art to escape from the path of perfect vitality.
If you wish to see outstanding art and aspire to understand what makes it great, this art tour is perfect for you.
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Private Themed Tour of the Belvedere with an Art Historian: “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt: how it became the Symbol of the Viennese Art. Ads all over Vienna lure viewers at every turn to the Belvedere to see ‘the most famous kiss’, on this tour you will understand what The Kiss is all about and decide for yourself whose arguments are more persuasive — art historians, marketers or viewers.
1 hour 45 minutes
Private Themed Tour of the Leopold Museum with an Art Historian: “All You Wanted to Know About Egon Schiele but Were Afraid to Ask”. The Leopold Museum in the Museum Quarter has the largest collection of works by this Viennese expressionist. So here I offer you a crash-course on the problematic topics of 20th century art: the borderline between art and pornography, the relevance of the artist’s personality to the interpretation of his works, and the question of the objective and subjective value of art.
1 hour 15 minutes
Private Tour of the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts with an Art Historian. We’ll begin our tour with the collection’s most prized possession — The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch. The modern viewer is amazed by the inferno in his famous triptych, rather than frightened. It mixes chimeras in the form of half snakes and half eggs, fear of wars and epidemics. And a great deal of the artist’s personal frustrations. I invite you to look closely at the details of the painting.
1 hour 15 minutes
Private themed Tour of the Art History Museum (Kunsthistorisches Museum): “The Saviour, the Ruler, and Simply a Beauty: Women in Art”. Museums and art galleries are full of images of women, naked and exquisitely dressed, realistic and overly idealized. Who are these attractive ladies – brides or prostitutes, criminals or heroines – and what can they tell us?
2 hours 15 minutes
Big Tour of Gustav Klimt’s Art in Vienna: Belvedere, Secession & Leopold Museum. This tour is great for those who would like to get a full understanding of Gustav Klimt’s art by visiting the three museums that exhibit his most prominent works.
3 hours
How to Pick a Crown. A Private Themed Tour of the Imperial Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer) / Tickets included. On this tour we will see the crown of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, the cradle of the Napoleon II, the horn of a unicorn and the robes of the members of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Each of these artefacts will tell us important and very fascinating things about ourselves.
2 hours 15 minutes
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