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Crusades

CRUSADES

French Revolution 1789

FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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The "Deutschmeister"-Regiment, the famous and very popular Vienna-based unit, fighting Bosnian insurgents in 1878. Oil on canvas by R. Konopa
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The "Deutschmeister"-Regiment, the famous and very popular Vienna-based uni...

Emperor Franz Joseph I visits Budapest, the second capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He looks down upon city and Chain-Bridge from the Fischer- bastion of the new Palace. Watercolour, 1908
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Emperor Franz Joseph I visits Budapest, the second capital of the Austro-Hungar...

Corridor in a shabby tenement building in Vienna. Such cheap apartment buildings went up to house the immigrant workers who flocked to the Austrian capital during the industrialization in the second half of the 19th century. The water fountain served all tenants.
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Corridor in a shabby tenement building in Vienna. Such cheap apartment bui...

Poster for the International Aviation Meeting in Vienna, Aspern airfield, June 1912.
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Poster for the International Aviation Meeting in Vienna, Aspern airfield,...

Uniform coat worn by Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his assassination in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. His morganatic wife, Duchess Sophie Hohenberg, died with him. The assassination by Gavrilo Princip, a young Serbian, brought about the First World War.
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Uniform coat worn by Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his assassination...

Bits of lace used to trim the Empress' clothes, carefully preserved by the lady in waiting who was present in Geneva when Elisabeth was stabbed to death by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni on Sept.10,1898.
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Bits of lace used to trim the Empress' clothes, carefully preserved by t...

The death of Count Pappenheim,General during the Thirty Years' War.His 8.000 cavaliers decided the battle of Luetzen,1632,for the Catholic armies,but Pappenheim was fatally wounded.Erroneously,Makart lets General Tilly pass the dying man.1861/62,canvas,Inv.117.566
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The death of Count Pappenheim,General during the Thirty Years' War.His 8.000 cav...

Entry of Emperor Karl V in Antwerp.Sketch for the finished painting in the Hamburg Kunsthalle. Sketch 1875. Canvas,127 x 240 Inv. 4453
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Entry of Emperor Karl V in Antwerp.Sketch for the finished painting in the...

The Austrian Federal Chancelery,built 1717-1719 for Emperor Karl VI.The Vienna Congress 1814-1815,which drew a new map of Europe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars,met in this building.Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was murdred here by Nazis in 1934.
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The Austrian Federal Chancelery,built 1717-1719 for Emperor Karl VI.The Vien...

"Reumannhof"named after the first socialist lord mayor of Vienna,Josef Reumann.During the 1920ies the socialist city government of "Red Vienna" built low- rent workers' housing,financed by a building tax on luxury apartments and houses.
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"Reumannhof"named after the first socialist lord mayor of Vienna,Josef Reumann....

Ornamental sword hilts and scabbards; cloisonne work, gold and garnets; from the tomb of Childeric I, discovered in Tournai in 1653 by the physician Jean-Jaques Chiflet.
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Ornamental sword hilts and scabbards; cloisonne work, gold and garnets; from the...

Crypt of the abbey Notre-Dame de Jouarre founded by Saint Adon, and family mausoleum (around 630) On the left side the tomb of Saint Telchilda, first abbess, decorated with shell-ornaments.
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Crypt of the abbey Notre-Dame de Jouarre founded by Saint Adon, and family m...