Wiener Staatsoper

On our last full day in Vienna, we exlored Ringstraße, Kunsthistorisches Museum, and attended Opera.

Wiener Staatsoper was built in the 19th Century, in Renaissance Revival style, during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef I, the penultimate Habsburg ruler, whose reign saw both the 1848 Revolutions and World War I.

Parliament and Vienna Opera are both located on Ringstraße, which surrounds Innere Stadt, where Vienna’s Medievel Fortification Wall once stood.

We also visited Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz.

From the American point of view, Empress Maria Theresa, reigned during the years before and through the time of the American Revolution, and this was the Enlightenment Era, with many advances in Culture. And whereas the American Theatre of the Seven Years War was known as the French And Indian War, the Central-European Theatre of the Seven Years War was known as the Third Silesian War, in which Prussia wrested control of the fertile and prosperous region of Silesia away from Austria (then under Empress Maria Theresa).

Kunsthistorisches Museum includes prominent Renaissance art by Titian, Raphael, Parmigianino, Arcimbolo, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Albrecht Dürer, Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer.

Renaissance art was a rediscovering of the anatomy, perspective, and realism of art from Classical Rome and Greece, which had been lost on Medievel Europe.

We definitely tested the dress code.

Our last selfie in Vienna.