Museum mania in Vienna! :) This trip was during our birthdays in 2019. So I got a Vienna card and enjoyed all the museum at the fullest! The art history museum has the famous “Tower of babel”. In “Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium” you see a variety of it. Then you see “David and Goliath” from Caravaggio again! The brother of it is in Galleria Borghese in Rome.
For me, the most exciting part was seeing Velazquez‘ pieces. My dearest “Infanta Margarita”. I have a great sympathy for this girl since the day I saw her in “Las Meninas” of Velazquez in Prado Museum.
Another surprise is seeing one of the “Babylon” lions here. The famous “Ishtar Gate“ exhibited in Pergamon Museum Berlin, and these lions were on the towers along the way.
Theseus and the Centaur – Antonio Canova, 1819 The Tower of Babel – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563 David with Goliath’s Head – Michelangelo Merisi, gen. Caravaggio, 1600/01
Infante Philipp Prosper – Diego RodrÃguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1659 Infanta Margarita in a white dress – Diego RodrÃguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1656 Infanta Margarita in a blue dress – Diego RodrÃguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1659 Archduchess Marie-Antoinette (1755−1793), Queen of France – Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1778 Infanta Maria Teresa – Diego RodrÃguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1652/53

Water- Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566 Top: Summer – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563 Below: Winter – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563 Children Games – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560 The Fight Between Carnival and Lent – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
The Art of Painting – Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1666/68 Wall-relief Depicting a Striding Lion reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604-562 BC