Albertina
Neoclassical Habsburg palace museum holding over a million prints, drawings and old master watercolors.
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This guide to the Albertina in Vienna follows Durer's watercolor hare from his 1502 workshop through five centuries of owners, including an emperor who carried it to Prague and a narrow escape during the Thirty Years' War. It traces the palace itself, once Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen's residence, through wartime bombing and its glass-roofed rebuilding. Ask why the hare on the wall might not be the real one.
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