Vienna Day Three: Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Part 2

Those with functioning eyes can look at the Madonna of the Meadow, by Raphael... 

While the blind or partially sighted can run their fingers over a relief model of the painting! Very cool, with Braille explanations in German...

 

Here's Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's 3rd wife (the one who died just after childbirth, poor thing), as depicted by Hans Holbein the Younger. The great condition of these paintings is just amazing. This one is from 1537. 1537. That's over 470 years ago. Ok, that's a long time for a painting to stay so vibrant and clear. 

 

 

Then we admired some Pieter Bruegel - The Hunters in the Snow (1565)...

 

And the Tower of Babel:

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