| Lectures |
| Lecturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1996 - Present) Nine-part series on "Great Treasuries of
Europe"; |
| Adjunct Professor:
New York University (1996 - Present) Four-part series on "Jewelry in Paris and St. Petersburg at the Turn of the Last Century"; Four-part series on "Appraising Fabergé and Objects of Vertu"; Four-part series on "Virtuoso Objects of the Renaissance and Baroque" |
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Adjunct Professor: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York (1995 - 1998) Ten part series on "Gold and Silver"; four-part series on "Fabergé" |
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Adjunct Professor: The New York School of Interior Design (1993 - 1995)
"European Silver and Objects of Vertu" |
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Lecturer (1988 - present)
Annually presents numerous lectures on a variety of subjects throughout America and Europe |
Individual Lectures |
| RUSSIAN ART & PETER CARL FABERGÉ |
| * St. Petersburg vs. Moscow : 200 years of artistic dichotomy |
| * Peter Carl Fabergé, Jeweler to the Tsars of Russia |
| * Peter Carl Fabergé and sources of his art |
| * Peter Carl Fabergé, silversmith |
| * The jewels of Peter Carl Fabergé |
| * The objets d' art of Peter Carl Fabergé |
| * The Imperial Easter eggs |
| * "Fauxberge", the art of forging Fabergé |
| * The World of Fabergé |
HABSBURG FAMILY LORE |
| * Empress Maria Theresia and the Glory of Viennese 18th century |
| * Marie Antoinette, the Tragic Queen of France |
| * Emperor Joseph II of Austria, A Revolutionary on the Austrian Throne? |
| * Granduca Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany (Emperor Leopold II of Austria) |
| * Sisi, (Elizabeth of Austria) The Lonely Empress |
| * Maximilian of Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico |
| * Crown Prince Rudolf and the Tragedy of Mayerling |
| * Luisa of Tuscany. Scandal at the Saxon Royal Court |
| * "S' Arxiduc" Ludwig Salvator, the Erudite Habsburg Archduke |
PRINCELY COLLECTIONS |
| * The Kunst-und Wunderkammern and the origin of museums 1400-1700 |
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* The Kunstkammer Collectors 1450-1750: From Piero de Medici to Landgrave
Frederick II of Hesse- Kassel |
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* Transalpine Kunstkammer Collectors of the High Renaissance and Early
Baroque 1550-1612: From Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria to Emperor Rudolf II. |
| * The Medici as Collectors and Patrons of the Arts |
| * From Cosimo, Pater Patriae to Lorenzo the Magnificent 1400-1500 |
| * From Cosimo I, first Grand Duke to Anna Maria, last of the Medici 1537-1743 |
| * The Habsburgs as Collectors & Patrons of the Arts |
| * Emperor Maximilian and the Habsburg public relations machine |
| * Charles V, the itinerant collector |
| * Philip II and the Spanish Royal collections |
| * Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands |
| * Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol and the Schloss Ambras Collections |
| * Emperor Rudolf II and the Hradshin Kunstkammer |
| * The Dresden Green Vaults and the Saxon Wettins 1550-1750 |
| * "All Glitter and Gold": The Green Vaults of Augustus the Strong 1721-1733 |
| * German Princely Collections 1550-1700: Munich, Kassel, Stuttgart and Berlin |
VARIA |
| * Tilman Riemenschneider. A Great Late Gothic Sculptor from Franconia |
| * "White Gold". The Birth of European Porcelain |
| * Renaissance Art and the Master Forgers of the late 19/20th century |
Contact information - eMail: vhabsburg@aol.com Fax: (914) 395-1287 |