The term ‘ganzes Haus’ (literally the ‘whole house’, i.e., household-family) refers to a particular form of communal...

The Austrian archducal coronet is both the ‘crown’ of the Habsburg patrimonial lands (Upper and Lower Austria in the...

Together with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, Gustav Klimt was given a number of important public commissions....

This woodcut completed by Albrecht Dürer in 1497-8 and entitled the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is...

A native of Nuremberg, Dürer trained as a goldsmith, painter and copperplate engraver. He was one of the first...

This small-bore rifle with a wheel lock was produced around 1650 and was intended for hunting fowl and smaller game...

In the nineteenth century railways transformed the way people travelled and goods were transported. In 1825 the...

From the beginning of the sixteenth century people were able to use a telescope to look into outer space. Being able...

Until around 1800 it was the spinning wheel and spindle that were used to process wool. The first spinning machine,...

The scallop is the symbol of St James, the patron saint of pilgrims. Since the Middle Ages his grave in Santiago de...

Scraps of cloth from clothing that had been worn out and discarded were for a long time the raw material used in the...