维也纳的阿尔贝妮娜博物馆收藏着世界上最为**的作品，这本书介绍了该博物馆最为出色的藏品，这些藏品的奠基人是艾伯特公爵和他的配偶，公爵夫人玛丽•克里斯蒂，这对夫妻的生活始于巴洛特时期的玛利亚•特里萨教堂，贯穿美国和欧洲革命，知道1815保守君主制在维也纳国会的恢复。博物馆中有他们在德累斯顿、罗马、巴黎、布鲁塞尔和维也纳的生活轨迹，让读者一瞥欧洲封建社会贵族的生活方式。

The Origins of the Albertina
100 Masterworks from the Collection

Edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Texts by Christoph Gnant, Maren Gröning, Christof Metzger, Eva Michel, graphic design by Maria-Anna Friedl

Encyclopedic aspirations in the spirit of the Enlightenment: the creation of the world-famous collection of prints

The Albertina in Vienna houses one of the world’s most eminent collections of art. This extensive, sumptuously illustrated volume presents the museum’s masterpieces acquired by the founder of the collection, Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, and his consort, the Grand Duchess Marie Christine. The history of the couple’s mercurial, fateful lives begins in the Baroque era at the court of Maria Theresa and moves through the years of revolution in America and Europe to the restoration of the conservative monarchies after the Vienna Congress in 1815. Well-informed essays shed light on their sojourns in Dresden, Rome, Paris, Brussels, and Vienna—centers of European culture and politics as well as hotbeds of social and intellectual innovations during the Enlightenment—and provide personal insight into the feudal lifestyle of the European aristocracy. Further contributions deal with the networks of collectors and art dealers as well as the history of the ideas behind this princely collection of prints.