The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( “Museum of Art History”, often referred to as the “Museum of Fine Arts”) is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building. It is the largest art museum in the country and one of the most important museums worldwide. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary opened the facility around 1891 at the same time as the Natural History Museum, Vienna which has a similar design and is directly across Maria-Theresien-Platz. The two buildings were constructed between 1871 and 1891 according to plans by Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer. The emperor commissioned the two Ringstraße museums to create a suitable home for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with an octagonal dome high. The interiors of the museums are lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornamentation, gold-leaf, and murals. The grand stairway features paintings by Gustav Klimt, Ernst Klimt, Franz Matsch, Hans Makart and Mihály Munkácsy. Collection Picture gallery The museum's primary collections are those of the Habsburgs, particularly from the portrait and armour collections of Ferdinand of Tirol, the collections of Emperor Rudolph II (the largest part of which is, however, scattered), and the collection of paintings of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, of which his Italian paintings were first documented in the Theatrum Pictorium. Notable works in the picture gallery include: Jan van Eyck: Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati (c. 1431) Antonello da Messina: San Cassiano Altarpiece (1475–1476) Raphael: Madonna of the Meadow (1506) St Margaret and the Dragon (1518) Albrecht Dürer: Avarice (1507) Adoration of the Trinity (1511) Titian: The Bravo (1516–17) Portrait of Isabella d'Este (1534–1536) Lorenzo Lotto: Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James (c.1527) Tintoretto: Susanna and the Elders (1555–56) Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559) Children's Games (1560) The Tower of Babel (1563) The Procession to Calvary (1564) The Gloomy Day (February - March) (1565) The Return of the Herd (October - November) (1565) The Hunters in the Snow (December - January) (1565) The Peasant and the Nest Robber (Bauer und Vogeldieb), 1568 The Peasant