anonim austriac

This Baroque-era painter had a knack for making emperors look approachable—no crowns too heavy, no robes too stiff. He painted the same man twice as Holy Roman Emperor, once in a silver waistcoat, once in ermine, both times with the faintest hint of a smile that says he’d rather be in the garden. See his brushwork in real life on the walls of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where the portraits hang side by side like two different moods on the same face.