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One of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known paintings, The Death of Tasso, depicts the death of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595). Tasso was famous for his epic poem, La Gerusalemme liberate (…
Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) is Karl Goldmark’s most famous opera. Premiering in Vienna in 1875, its imaginative plot revolves around a love triangle involving the Queen of Sheba, Assad…
The women’s prayer section depicted in this painting gives a rare glimpse into the ways that women have asserted their agency and voices even in gender-segregated spaces.
People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street is one of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known works. In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of a trend in European art that was moving away from…
Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…
