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.