The Belvedere Companion Guide

Gustav Klimt's Kiss is world-famous, the era "Vienna around 1900" legendary, the Biedermeier collection a jewel: The Belvedere Companion Guide offers a comprehensive overview of eight hundred years of Austrian art. Over one hundred works from the permanent collection-from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century-are described and explained vividly in this book. Short introductions to the periods of art history provide in-depth information and are accompanied by biographies of the most important artists in the collection-from Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, the creator of the "Character Heads," to Egon Schiele, whose portraits have lost none of their original intensity.