The Kunsthistorisches Museum ("Art History Musuem") is the most prominent art museum in Vienna, Austria. The main museum is in a Ringstraße building, on Maria Theresien-Platz.
Affiliated with the Vienna museum, and officially part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are:
- The Lipizzaner Museum in the Stallburg (Vienna)
- Ambras Castle (Innsbruck)
- The Museum of Ethnology (Vienna, affiliated in 2001)
- The Austrian Theatre Museum (Vienna, affiliated in 2001)
Among the most important works in the picture galery are:
- Jan van Eyck: "Cardinal Niccolò Albergati" ("Kardinal Niccoló Albergati"), 1438
- Albrecht Dürer: "Adoration of the Trinity" (Anbetung der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit), 1511
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo: "Summer" (Sommer), 1563
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: " Madonna of the Rosary" (Die Rosenkranzmadonna) 1606/07
- Peter Paul Rubens: "Ildefonso Altar" (Der Altar des hl. Ildefonso), 1630-32
- Peter Paul Rubens: "The Fur" (Das Pelzchen), um 1638
- Johannes Vermeer: "The Artists Studio" (Die Malkunst), 1665/66
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder:
- "The Fight Between Carnival and Lent" (Kampf zwischen Fasching und Fasten), 1559
- "Children's Games" (Kinderspiele), 1560
- "The Tower of Babel" (Turmbau zu Babel), 1563
- "The Procession to Calvary" (Kreuztragung Christi), 1564
- "The Gloomy Day (Feb.-Ma.)" (Düsterer Tag (Vorfrühling)), 1565
- "The Return of the Herd (Oct.-Nov.)" (Heimkehr der Herde (Herbst)), 1565
- "The Hunters in the Snow (Dec.-Jan.)" (Jäger im Schnee (Winter)), 1565
- "The Peasant and the Nest Robber" (Bauer und Vogeldieb), 1568
- "The Peasant Wedding" (Bauernhochzeit), 1568/69
- "The Peasant Dance" (Bauerntanz), 1568/69
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