Augustinian Church, Vienna
Gothic court church holding a Canova marble cenotaph and a crypt of Habsburg hearts sealed in silver urns.
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This guide to the Augustinian Church in Vienna opens on a marble pyramid tomb along the wall, carved by Antonio Canova over seven years for Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen to mourn his wife, Archduchess Maria Christina, a daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, after her death in 1798. You'll hear why Canova refused a portrait of the dead and carved a procession climbing toward an open doorway instead, and what the crypt behind the side chapel actually holds. Look for the small medallion of her face, the tomb's only clue to who it honors.
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