Golden Vienna

Building exterior along Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna, Austria. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail of the “Embracing Couple,” part of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the Secession building, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Hyper-realistic wooden bird on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Nude Study, Egon Schiele, 1908. Leopold Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Salt Cellar (Saliera), Benvenuto Cellini, 1543. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Prunksaal, Austrian National Library, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Mother with Two Children, Egon Schiele, 1915. Leopold Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Hallway ceiling in the Globe Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Prologue, a work consisting of 8,000 Swarovski crystals hung from a framed screen, by the London design firm Fredrikson Stallard. Installed in the Upper Belvedere, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail of “Poetry,” part of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the Secession, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Wall in the “Gold Cabinet” of the Lower Belvedere, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Golden Rose, Giuseppe Pietro Paolo Spagna, Rome, 1818/19. Imperial Treasury, Hofburg Palace, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Reclining Woman, Egon Schiele, 1917. Leopold Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Italian mineral specimen in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Yellow Fog by Olafur Eliasson along the facade of the Verbund-Gebäudes, Am Hof Square, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz, 2016.

Siberian petrified lemon in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Faces of Vienna, part 2

Lorenzo Lotto’s Young Man before a White Curtain, c. 1508, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Preserved(ish) fish in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the Secession Building. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Sphinx in the Belvedere Gardens, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot by Barthel Beham, 1529, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Distressed babies in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail from Gerard David’s Altarpiece of the Archangel Michael, c. 1510, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Life-size model of a Terror bird at the Naturhistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Portrait Busts of the Family of Emperor Leopold I by Paul Strudel, 1695. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail of Josef Heintz the Elder’s copy of Parmigiano’s Bow-Carving Amor. Heintz, court painter to Emperor Rudolf II, made his copy after Rudolf purchased the original in 1603. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Stucco (?) relief in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Marble bust in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

One of Anton Pilgram’s possible self-portraits in Vienna’s Stephansdom. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Anton Kolig’s Prisoner Type II—Russian, c. 1916, at the Leopold Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

More distressed babies, above Cartier in Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Verso painting of an “allegorical female figure” by Albrecht Dürer from 1507 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the Secession Building. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Gustav Klimt, The Blind Man, c. 1896, on display at the Leopold Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Skeptical patriarch, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Peasant Dance, c. 1568, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Self-Portrait with Raised Bare Shoulder (1912) by Egon Schiele at the Leopold Museum. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Relief outside Stephansdom, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Oversized model in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.