The Paintings Collection (Gemaldegalerie) of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the few truly internationally famous collections of art.Over 160 masterpieces ranging from the 15th to the 18th centuries have been selected for this book and carefully reproduced in colour. Together with art-historical comments they provide a magnificent overview.

The Paintings Collection (Gemaldegalerie) of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the few truly internationally famous collections of art.Over 160 masterpieces ranging from the 15th to the 18th centuries have been selected for this book and carefully reproduced in colour. Together with art-historical comments they provide a magnificent overview.

This completely revised edition is arranged by school to reflect the organization of the Collection, and is accompanied by an updated and revised text in the form of introductory essays and extended captions.

The Collection is dominated by Venetian Renaissance and Flemish works, both emanating largely from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm during his period as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands in addition to paintings he purchased from English collections following the fall of the English monarchy at the end of the English Civil War.

Works by the 16th-century masters Giorgione, Titian,Tintoretto and Veronese, the German Renaissance painters Diirer, Cranach and Holbein, the Baroque Italians such as Caravaggio and Bellotto, are matched only by one of the greatest Rubens Collection in the world and the epitome of Early Netherlandish painting as represented by the Pieter Bruegel Collection.

Dr Wolfgang Prohaska is Curator of the Paintings Collection (Gemaldegalerie) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

History of the Paintings Collection 6

Italian Painting 16

Early Netherlandish and Flemish Painting 52

Dutch Painting 80

German Painting 92

Spanish, French and English Painting 110

Court Portraiture 118

Bibliography and Index 128