Guided tour in the European Sculpture 1350-1800 exhibition
The collection of Old Sculpture preserves some 650 works from six centuries of European sculpture spanning from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The exhibition material comprises close to 100 masterpieces of German late Gothic art and the Italian Renaissance as well as by the most important sculptors of the Austrian baroque. Outstanding pieces include Tilman Riemenschneider’s Virgin and Child, the wax Virgin and Child by Jacopo Sansovino, an architect and sculptor born in Florence and active in Venice, and the Character Heads by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, the extravagant genius of Austrian baroque art.