Schönbrunn Palace (Vienna)

Schloss Schönbrunn in Wien, Farbphotographie, 2004, Photograph: Heinz-Peter Deska; Bildquelle: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_september_2004.jpgCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Schönbrunn Palace was already viewed as a response and counterpoint to Versailles by contemporaries. The construction of Schönbrunn Palace was part of an artistic contest with the French king and was intended to signal the re-emergence of the Austrian Habsburgs as a European great power.

Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, colour photograph, 2004, photographer: Heinz-Peter Deska; source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_september_2004.jpg

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