Habsburg splendor
Subtitle: masterpieces from Vienna's imperial collections at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
By: edited by Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner ; with essays by Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner, Franz Pichorner, and Stefan Krause
Contributors: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; High Museum of Art
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780300210866
Subjects: Catalogs; Art collections; Art; Exhibitions; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Description: "This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled most of central Europe, Spain, Belgium, and parts of Italy for nearly six hundred years, from the fifteenth through the twentieth century"--
Notes: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts hosted the exhibition as part of its 100-year birthday celebration of the building's opening on January 5, 1915.

Issued in connection with an exhibition organized by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and the following museums which also hosted the exhibit: the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 15-May 10, 2015; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 14-September 13, 2015; and, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 18, 2015-January 17, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Directors' foreword  -- Kaywin Feldman, Gary Tinterow, Michael E. Shapire, Sabine Haag; title: The imperial collections and the Kunsthistorisches Museum : from the origins of the Habsburg collections to the modern museum  -- Franz Pichorner; title: The Habsburgs : empire and art  -- Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner; title: "They call it royal for good reason" : the tournaments of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance  -- Stefan Krause; title: The throne on wheels : carriages and sleigh rides in the Baroque Era  -- Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner; title: The emperor's clothes : on the significance of uniforms in nineteenth-century society  -- Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner; title: Catalogue of the exhibition.