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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Some very light tanning to page edges. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna’s celebrated Art History Museum is a splendid setting for the collection of art treasures that it houses masterpieces assembled over the centuries by the emperors and archdukes of Austria. For the reader who cannot go to Vienna or who has been and wants to remember this book attempts to take the place of that building and provide a setting worthy of the imperial magnificence that characterizes the collection. Here in 131 four-colour photographs the most brilliant and famous of the paintings in the picture gallery are presented covering the spectrum of European art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. The various personal tastes of Austria’s rulers are reflected Archduke Ernest’s liking for Bruegel’s robust peasant scenes Archduke Leopold William’s preference for Mantegna’s solitary religious works. Thus the book has a distinct personal flavour that enriches the appeal of the paintings. (MP)