Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
Life drawing room at the Vienna academy, Martin Ferdinand Quadal, 1787
Main entrance on Schillerplatz
Fragment of the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Anatomical room of the Akademie
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738)
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was the second child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. As a child, and for a time the eldest surviving child, she was heiress presumptive, but she suffered from ill health and physical disability, and did not marry. In 1766 she became abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Prague. Soon thereafter she moved to Klagenfurt and remained there for the rest of her life. Her palace in Klagenfurt, the Mariannengasse, now houses the Episcopal Palace.
Portrait by Martin van Meytens, 1760s
Watercolor of Maria Anna by Liotard, 1762
Ignaz von Born. Engraving by Jacob Adam.
Abbess Xaveria Gasser.