More Medieval

 Most of these items were rescued from St. Stephans after a big fire and moved to the museum for safe keeping.
Dr. O used these statues to talk to us about the Gothic S Curve--the way that they are standing, a pose that no person would hold for long and giving them a fanciful appearance.

 

Frescos

 

 

 

The cutest gargoyle ever

 

 

Rudolf IV a.k.a.Rudolf the Founder (1339-1365)--did a ton for Vienna, established the university, faked his way into becoming an elector, faked St. Stephens into becoming a "cathedral"---why?  He married a stunning Bohemian princess (below) and spent his life keeping up with his father-in-law, the great Emperor Charles IV. He died at 27, bitten by a strange bug while off fighting a war. 

 

Rudolf's father (Mother above--got a major S-curve goin on, Parents one below, Father two below) was Albrecht the Lame.  :-(
He had R.A. and modern day scholars say that he suffered more from the cures than from the disease.  He even went blind from a "cure".