Day 43 - Chill Time .... yeah right

Today I slowly got around to things and thought I´d have a quick look at a museum listed in the guidebook and not given much of a description - the Kunsthistorisches Museum. I´d never heard of it before today but it has amazing collection of really important works (quite a number that I´ve studied at length).

First up where some more Titian´s and Venetian paintings. The great thing about seeing today´s works was that, in general, everything is all started to fall into place and make a great deal of sense. Having seen the various major artistic centres (Paris, Madrid, Rome, Florence, Venice) and connecting the dots, I´m really getting a good sense of the whole jig saw puzzle.

All the big guys where well represented - Titian, Raphael (a couple of his late works that I thought were good - generally not much of a Raphael fan), Caravaggio, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Holbein, Durer, Bruegel and a brilliant Ruben´s exhibition!

The Rubens exhibition had some of his really key paintings (several metres by several metres) and also the small little sketches/studies/preliminary drawings for these - which from a practicing artist point of view are always very insightful.

7 hours later I got kicked out as there were closing and I still hadn´t seen about 1/2 a floor of stuff .... there´s always next time :D