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, 1819The Tower of Babel – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563 David with Goliath’s Head – Michelangelo Merisi, gen. Caravaggio, 1600/01 Infante Philipp Prosper – Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1659 Infanta Margarita in a white dress – Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1656 Infanta Margarita in a blue dress – Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1659Archduchess Marie-Antoinette (1755−1793), Queen of France – Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1778Infanta Maria Teresa – Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1652/53
Left: Infanta Margarita in a pink gown – Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,1651–1673
Water- Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566Top: Summer – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563 Below: Winter – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563 Children Games – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560The Fight Between Carnival and Lent – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559The Art of Painting – Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1666/68Wall-relief Depicting a Striding Lion reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604-562 BC
