Point of View #27: A Masterpiece and its (Almost) Forgotten Collector

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[jpg] (3.7 MB) Master of the Benda Madonna
Virgin and Child (so-called Benda Madonna)
c. 1490/1500, oak panel, 54.8 × 39.3 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. 6977
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[jpg] (3.4 MB) Martin Schongauer
The Holy Family
c. 1480/90, beechwood, 26.3 × 17.2 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. 843
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[jpg] (1.0 MB) Desiderio da Settignano
Laughing Boy
c. 1460/64, marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Kunstkammer, inv. KK 9104
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[jpg] (2.0 MB) Francesco di Giorgio Martini (attributed to)
Virgin and Child with Three Angels
4th quarter of the 15th century, bronze
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Kunstkammer, inv. KK 9118
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[jpg] (1.9 MB) View into one of the galleries in which the Benda Collection was installed (at the Neue Burg) after its bequest to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1932
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[jpg] (2.0 MB) View into one of the galleries in which the Benda Collection was installed (at the Neue Burg) after its bequest to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1932
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[jpg] (189 KB) Exhibition view
Photo: Daniel Auer
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[jpg] (503 KB) Exhibition view
Photo: Daniel Auer
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[jpg] (821 KB) Exhibition view
Photo: Daniel Auer
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[jpg] (377 KB) Exhibition view
Photo: Daniel Auer
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[jpg] (550 KB) Exhibition view
Photo: Daniel Auer
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