The Stallburg is a renaissance-style building in the

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city center located between Josefsplatz and Michaelerplatz. It is part of the

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. Formerly the living quarters of Archduke Maximilian , later

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, it was built around 1558-1565 as a residence. From 1659 to 1776 it housed the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, called the ''Stallburg gallery''. This collection forms the core of the later

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from 1889. Later the building became the Imperial Stables used to house the imperial horses, and even today it is still used by the

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(Spanische Hofreitschule). Before moving to Vienna in 1659, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm formed his art collection of 1400 paintings in

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, where David Teniers the Younger painted views of his Brussels gallery, which are now spread among various collections. He made many miniatures of the paintings for use as models by engravers and published a catalog of the Italian paintings in the 1660s called ''

Theatrum Pictorium ''Theatrum Pictorium'', or ''Theatre of Painting'', is a short-hand name of a book published in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the Ar ...

''. File:El archiduque Leopoldo Guillermo en su galería de pinturas en Bruselas (David Teniers II).jpg, '' The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery in Brussels'',

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by Teniers in 1673 on archive.org

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After Teniers,

Anton Joseph von Prenner Anton Joseph von Prenner or von Brenner (7 March 1683 – 1761) was an Austrian painter, engraver and publisher. He is mainly known for his publications recording the Imperial art collections kept in the Stallburg gallery.

was the next to make an illustrated catalog of the paintings there in the 1720s, which included the additions of the Naples collection of

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. Charles VI commissioned Ferdinand Storffer to oversee color miniatures as well as engravings for it. The resulting document "The Newly Arranged Inventory of the Imperial Paintings Gallery in the Stallburg" appeared in four volumes from 1720 to 1733. Charles VI also commissioned Francesco Solimena to commemorate the re-arrangement of the gallery with a painting. The name of the building comes from the horses of the imperial family, who were housed on the ground floor under the reign of

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. The fountain with wrought iron railings in the middle of the yard was built in 1675. The building was heavily damaged in 1945 just before the end of the Second World War by bombs but was faithfully restored during the years 1947-1948. The passage to the arcades between Hofburg and Stallburg was opened on July 1, 1948. Today

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s of the Spanish Riding School are housed there, the associated stud is located in Piber in

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. From Reitschulgasse one can see the yard. Next to it was the now closed Lipizzan Museum.

References

Vienna websiteCatalog of the collections
in 1886, archive.org * Ferdinand Storffer, ''Neu eingerichtetes Inventarium der Kayserlichen Bilder Gallerie in der Stallburg'', 3 volumes, 1720-1733
The Restoration of Paintings at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century in the Imperial Gallery
by Alice Hoppe-Harnoncourt
David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting
exhibition 19 October 2006 to 21 January 2007,

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