Oberes Belvedere

In Love with Laura

Female marble bust around 1490
Francesco Laurana (um 1430–1502) Weibliche Büste, Idealporträt der Laura (?) / Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien © KHM-Museumsverband
Female marble bust around 1490

A Mystery in Marble

20 June - 15 October 2023

This exhibition focusses on a central work of European sculpture: Francesco Laurana’s (c. 1430–1502) Female Bust at the Kunstkammer Wien. It is one of the few Renaissance marble busts with colouring. The work is one of the most significant creations of fifteenth century portrait sculpture. This small but prestigiously appointed exhibition is set to rekindle public interest in the exceptional importance of this object, which has somewhat fallen into oblivion in the last decades. The exhibition will be the first to showcase a thesis formulated some time ago that this is a portrait of the mysterious Laura who was so deeply (but unhappily) beloved by the Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch. Petrarch wrote over three hundred touching poems for Laura in the fourteenth century.

Next to masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum like Giorgione’s painting Laura, the exhibition will feature international loans from the Frick Collection in New York and the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence.

Venue

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Maria-Theresien-Platz
1010 Wien

Tickets & Info

Current Dates

  • Sat. 23 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sun. 24 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Tue. 26 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 27 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 28 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
  • Fri. 29 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 30 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sun. 01 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Tue. 03 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 04 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
All dates

All Dates

September

  • Sat. 23 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sun. 24 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Tue. 26 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 27 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 28 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
  • Fri. 29 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 30 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

October

  • Sun. 01 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Tue. 03 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 04 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 05 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
  • Fri. 06 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 07 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sun. 08 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Tue. 10 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 11 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 12 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
  • Fri. 13 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 14 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sun. 15 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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