The Kunsthistorisches Museum stands on the Ringstrasse in Vienna, completed in 1891 to a design by the architects Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer, built to house the vast art and antiquities collections amassed over centuries by the Habsburg dynasty. It forms an architectural pair with the nearly identical Naturhistorisches Museum standing directly across the Maria-Theresien-Platz, the two matching Historicist buildings designed together as twin bookends framing the square. The museum's domed central hall and grand staircase are richly decorated with marble, gilding and painted ornament, including ceiling and spandrel paintings executed in part by the young Gustav Klimt before he broke from academic painting to help found the Vienna Secession. Its collections, ranging from ancient Egyptian and classical antiquities to the paintings of Bruegel, Titian and Velazquez, made it one of the largest and most comprehensive museum buildings built anywhere in nineteenth-century Europe.
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Introduction
an art museum in Vienna, Austria
History section
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary opened the facility around 1891
Architecture section
topped with octagonal domes 60 metres (200 ft) high
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum stands on the Ringstrasse in Vienna, completed in 1891 to a design by the architects Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer, built to house the vast art and antiquities collections amassed over centuries by the Habsburg dynasty. It forms an architectural pair with the nearly identical Naturhistorisches Museum standing directly across the Maria-Theresien-Platz, the two matching Historicist buildings designed together as twin bookends framing the square. The museum's domed central hall and grand staircase are richly decorated with marble, gilding and painted ornament, including ceiling and spandrel paintings executed in part by the young Gustav Klimt before he broke from academic painting to help found the Vienna Secession. Its collections, ranging from ancient Egyptian and classical antiquities to the paintings of Bruegel, Titian and Velazquez, made it one of the largest and most comprehensive museum buildings built anywhere in nineteenth-century Europe.
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The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with octagonal domes 60 metres (200 ft) high.
In Style: Renaissance Revival architecture, Wikipedia lead
The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with octagonal domes 60 metres (200 ft) high.
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