Vienna 2018-03-03 more KHM

More photos today from the Kunst Historisches Museum - mostly Italian Renaissance galleries (I think), including the one Caravaggio that I noticed there.

Don't know why museums display paintings so high up on the wall that you can't really see them (see a couple of the photos). Just to show off how deep their collection is? I included some photos with people so you could see how big some of the works are.

Apparently it's a thing to have wedding photos
 taken in the KHM.

See? Floor to ceiling paintings.

Signs of spring & more KHM goodies

In & around our house, and more pix from the KHM, the first of which is another anonymous installation of a Ron Mueck. His very realistic pieces, except for scale (you can't tell from the picture that the figure is about 2 feet long) sculpture, I first saw at the Hirshhorn museum. That show totally blew me away.

There's also a wonderful Vermeer & one I took of someone reproducing another painting right before our eyes.

Mimsy in the window

Our Wright garden sprite hiding until she
goes outside.

What they don't tell you is that he killed himself.

Nearing the end

Well, not of the pictures. I thought I'd send along a link to an IMHO segment on the PBS News Hour in case you missed it last night, entitled "Learning how to think about death changed how I live."

So here are the photos of my trip from the MAK to the Belvedere to buy tickets (I was reminded the hard way that if you hold up your index finger for 1 of something you're likely to get 2 in Europe since 1 is indicated by the thumb. Fortunately I'd planned to visit the Belvedere twice, though not necessarily both parts, so it wasn't a total bust. €44 would have been a lot for a single visit, even for that collection.

I then made my way to the Kunst Historisches Museum (literally Historical Art Museum) a.k.a. KHM, a huge place. I was almost crying as I finally gave up and just high tailed it through the last of the seemingly endless Kunstkammers. The Klimt murals adorn some of the walls surrounding the central hall. More KHM photos to follow.

On the tram to the Belvedere

Belvedere - Oberes (Upper), I think

KHM statue as you mount the stairs from the central hall.

Kinda past their prime, but a propos somehow.

I think the above is the Greek one.

Several modern works were paired with older ones - no
wall blurbs so I don't know if I was too early or if the
powers-that-be were just leaving it to our imaginations.

Hans Memling is one of my favorite Dutch
painters. Sorry this is so blurry.