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The [[staircase]] of the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] in [[Vienna]] is equipped with [[spandrel]] and [[intercolumniation]] paintings by [[Gustav Klimt]], [[Ernst Klimt]] and [[Franz Matsch]], [[Lunette| lunette pictures]] by [[Hans Makart]] and a [[Painted ceiling|ceiling painting]] by [[Mihály Munkácsy]].
== History ==
In the middle of 1881 the committee in charge of building in Vienna commissioned [[Hans Makart]] with the overall equipment of the large staircase. However, since Makart died in 1884, only the lunette pictures had been completed by then and could be affixed to the walls of the museum. The committee had to look for other artists for the missing spandrel and intercolumniation paintings. In 1885 [[Hans Canon]] was initially entrusted with the ceiling painting, but he also died a few months later. Finally, Mihály Munkácsy was commissioned to paint the ceiling with ''Apotheosis of the Renaissance'', which was completed in the middle of 1890. The ''Maler-Compagnie'', in which the brothers [[Gustav Klimt|Gustav]] and [[Ernst Klimt]] as well as [[Franz Matsch]] had merged, was to carry out the spandrel and intercolumniation pictures. The works were completed in 1891.<ref>Otmar Rychlik: '' Gustav Klimt, Franz Matsch und Ernst Klimt im Kunsthistorischen Museum.'' Catalog for the special exhibition (Klimt-Bridge), page 12. Edition Kunst, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2012.</ref> Concept and naming of the interior came from [[Albert Ilg]].<ref>[http://press.khm.at/fileadmin/content/KHM/Presse/2012/Klimt/PT_Klimt_Kriller_dt.pdf ''Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen/Make the invisible visible.''] Article by Beatrix Kriller-Erdrich, p. 5. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1991.</ref>
== Ceiling painting: Mihály Munkácsy ==
Munkácsy's ''[[Apotheosis]] [[Renaissance|of the Renaissance]]'' seems like a building of the Renaissance with a [[dome]], which is opened to the sky. In a [[loggia]] one can see the [[pope]], below [[Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and [[Raphael]]. [[Tizian]] gives lessons in painting, and [[Paolo Veronese]] stands on a framework. Personalized representations of fame and glory of the arts hover above - [[Pheme]] and [[Glory (honor)|Glory]].
==Plan==
{| class="wikitable"
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| colspan="4" rowspan="4" | ||[[file:Hans Makart - Michelangelo Buonarroti - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]||[[file:Hans Makart - Allegory of Religious and Profane Painting - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]||[[file:Hans Makart - Titian - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
| colspan="4" rowspan="4" |
|-
| Makart
''Michaelangelo''
| Makart
''Allegory of painting''
| Makart
''Titian''
|-
|[[file:Klimt - Römisches und venezianisches Quattrocento, 1891 (3).jpg|100px]]
|[[File:Klimt - Griechische Antike und Aegypten, 1891 (2).jpg|100px]]
|[[file:Klimt - Alt-Italienische Kunst, 1891 (3).jpg|100px]]
|-
|Gustav Klimt
''Roman and Venetian''
''Quattrocento''
|Gustav Klimt
''Ancient Greece''
''and Egypt''
|Gustav Klimt
''Old Italian art''
|-
|[[file:Hans Makart - Peter Paul Rubens - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
| Makart
''Rubens''
|[[File:Holländische und Vlämische Schule (Ernst Klimt).jpg|100px]]
|Ernst Klimt
''Holland and Flemish school''
| colspan="3" rowspan="3" |[[File:Benfoto-Vienna-museum2015u.jpg|300px]]
|Ernst Klimt
''German Renaissance''
|[[File:Die deutsche Renaissance (Ernst Klimt).jpg|100px]]
|Makart
''Van Dyck''
|[[file:Hans Makart - Anthony van Dyck - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
|-
|[[file:Hans Makart - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
| Makart
''Rembrandt''
|[[File:Barock und Rokoko (Franz Matsch).jpg|100px]]
|Franz Matsch
''Barocco and Rococo''
|Ernst Klimt
''Spain and Netherlands''
|[[File:Spanien und Niederlande (Ernst Klimt).jpg|100px]]
|Makart
''Velazquez''
|[[file:Hans Makart - Diego Velázquez - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
|-
|[[file:Hans Makart - Raphael - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
| Makart
''Raphael''
|[[file:Klimt - Florentinisches Cinquecento und Quattrocento, 1891 (3).jpg|100px]]
|Gustav Klimt
''Florentine''
''Cinquecento and Quattrocento''
|Ernst Klimt
''Italian High Renaissance''
|[[File:Italienische Hochrenaissance (Ernst Klimt).jpg|100px]]
|Makart
''Leonardo da Vinci''
|[[file:Hans Makart - Leonardo da Vinci - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
|-
| colspan="4" rowspan="5" |
| colspan="3" |Mihály Munkácsy. ''Apotheosis of the Renaissance''
| colspan="4" rowspan="5" |
|-
|[[File:Karolingische und burgundische Zeit (Franz Matsch).jpg|100px]]
|[[File:Romanische und byzantinische Kunst, Römische Antike (Franz Matsch).jpg|100px]]
|[[File:Nordische Gotik des späteren Mittelalters (Franz Matsch).jpg|100px]]
|-
|Franz Matsch
''Karolingian and Burgundian time''
|Franz Matsch
''Roman and Byzantine art, Roman Antique''
|Franz Matsch
''North Gothic in the Late Middle Ages''
|-
|[[file:Hans Makart - Albrecht Dürer - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
|[[file:Hans Makart - Allegory of the Law and Truth of Representation - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
|[[file:Hans Makart - Hans Holbein the Younger - Google Art Project.jpg|100x100px|альт=]]
|-
|Makart
''Durer''
|Makart
''Allegory of sculpture''
|Makart
''Holbein''
|}
== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Grand staircase) - wall paintings}}
* [http://press.khm.at/fileadmin/content/KHM/Presse/2012/Klimt/PT_Klimt_kurz_dt.pdf ''Gustav Klimt im Kunsthistorischen Museum.''] Article by [[Kunsthistorisches Museum|KHM]] for the special exhibition (Klimt-Bridge) 2012. Visited on December 23, 2013.
* [http://kurier.at/kultur/kunst/khm-bruecke-bringt-besucher-klimt-naeher/869.512/slideshow ''KHM: Brücke bringt Besuchern Klimt näher.''] Article by [[Kurier]] on the occasion of the special exhibition ''Klimt-Bridge'' in 2012. Slideshow. Visited on December 23, 2013.
* [http://othes.univie.ac.at/27969/1/2013-03-02_0747650.pdf ''Munkácsy Mihály: Apotheose der Renaissance.''] Thesis by Bernadett Doór, University of Vienna, 2013.
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