Antonio Canova: Theseus vanquishing the centaur Phereus, marble sculpture, photograph, c. 1875

Marble sculpture, originally installed in the Theseus Temple in Vienna’s Volksgarten, subsequently transferred to the main stairway of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1890, here in its initial location.

Little commemorates the people who populated the Habsburg Monarchy – in contrast to those who ruled over them. The power ...
The Habsburg monument cult
1.1.1800–1.1.1938