Portrait of Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg

Giovanni Battista Lampi

Download hi-res image TITLE Portrait of Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg
AUTHOR Giovanni Battista Lampi
DATE 1786
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on canvas
TECNICA OPERA olio su tela
DIMENSIONS cm 63 x 47
ROOM I
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Brera’s history begins with the last painting to enter the collection. The Prince of Kaunitz and Chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a man of culture, as we can see from the presence of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom to whom he is pointing, and from the Classical setting in this study for a large portrait for the Academy in Vienna. Kaunitz and the Empress Maria Theresa established a multiudisciplinary school in brera in 1773, in which artistic education played a major role.