Picture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Vienna Academy, founded in 1692 as the most modern academies, had no luck to have a collection of pictures. This changed only by a generous act of patronage of Count Lamberg-Sprintsenshteyna, who in 1822 bequeathed his well-known collection of about 800 paintings of the Imperial Academy. In Vienna, as the first art museum in the establishment of the writer testamentary documents were submitted by the public nature and the creation of the directory "Count Lambergskaya Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts." At the same time the collection was also available for students of art and teaching. The art gallery based there possesses outstanding works by Dutch and Flemish painters of the 17th century (including Rubens, Rembrandt and van Dyck), as well as pieces such as the altar of the "Last Judgment" by Hieronymus Bosch.