Vienna Hofburg - Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum, Silver Collection

Via the Eagle Staircase in the adjoining Leopoldine Wing the empress accessed her apartments through the guards’room and the antechamber. The paintings on the wall take us back to the 18th century, to the time of Maria Theresa. It was this epoch that provided the model for the prevailing neo-Rococo style of interiors favoured by the court during the reign of Franz Joseph. Two of the paintings show scenes from the famous operas Il parnasso confuso by Gluck and Il trionfo d’amore by Gassmann performed by Maria Theresa’s children. One of the paintings shows the empress’s youngest daughter, Marie Antoinette, dancing in a ballet.www.hofburg-wien.at | Download Tour-Guide (PDF)© by Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.