‘All the histories of art’, new exhibition at Guggenheim Bilbao

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Mars, Venus and Cupid, Tiziano Vecellio. Photo: Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum hosts the collection ‘All the histories of art’ from October 3 to January 18 of the next year. ‘All the histories of art: The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna’ is divided into six thematic sections corresponding to the quintessential genres of art history -portraits; history, religion, and mythology; nudes; popular customs; still lives and architecture and landscapes- .

In 1891 the Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830- 1916) inaugurated the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The building was born of the need to create a space to hold the imperial collections that the House of Habsburg had accumulated since the days of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and that would continue to grow until the fall of the Austro Hungarian Empire. These collections, a reflection of the tastes of the Habsburg emperors, their family relations, and five centuries of European diplomacy and politics, boast masterpieces of European painting and sculpture as well as scientific and decorative objects, tapestries, coins, armor, and works from antiquity that delighted those monarchs.