Mansion Magnificent Mansions - Schönbrunn Palace After the defeat of the Turks in 1683, Emperor Leopold I commissioned the Schönbrunn Palace (completed 1730) to be built in Vienna on land that had been acquired back in 1569 when Emperor Maximilian II acquired a small summer palace in a converted mill on this site.
Women Artists Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. In an era when female painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
Travel Mattia Preti and the Baroque Churches of Malta The history of art in Malta is discussed & we are introduced to the works of Mattia Preti which leads beautifully on to Caravaggio. St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valetta. Image is the Feast of Herod located in the Toledo Museum of Art
