"Stallions' Room" with the Marshals' Table, laid for dinner
Blue Chinese Salon, furnished with painted Chinese rice-paper wall coverings incorporating rectangular and oval pictures containing scenes representing the production of silk, porcelain, tea and rice
View of the Vieux Laque Room, which Maria Theresa refurbished as a memorial room for her beloved husband Franz I Stephan of Lorraine.
Ceiling fresco on the Blue Stairway with an allegorical depiction of Joseph, the heir to the throne, as a virtuous hero, detail. Sebastiano Ricci. 1701/2
Hercules slaying the Hydra. Bronze sculpture in the central vestibule of the palace. Attributed to Marc Chabry. C. 1700
Crown Prince Apartment, suite of rooms with exotic and native landscapes.
Goess Apartment, detail of a gilded stove in the shape of a tree trunk decorated with three-dimensional animals
Goess Apartment, room painted with exotic landscape and luxuriant vegetation, with garden portals and peacocks from a princely garden.
Goess Apartment, the summer apartments of Empress Maria Theresa, with exotic landscape murals by Johann Wenzel Bergl; suite of rooms.
Emperor Franz Joseph in full dress uniform. Oil painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. 1865
Empress Elisabeth in a court ball gown with diamond stars in her hair. Oil painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. 1865
Espalier walk in the Hietzing Privy Garden
Detail of the Palm House with collection of tropical plants.
Palm House Garden and Palm House
Avenue in autumn
Detail of the figural group depicting Alexander and Olympia, bosket "bei der Kaiserfigur"
Clipped hedges in autumn
Palm House Garden with the parish church at Hietzing
The Fan, a symmetrically laid-out bosket
Reconstructed Baroque broiderie parterre in the "Garden over the Cellar"
Hietzing Privy Garden, formerly the private garden of the imperial family, looking towards the west façade of the palace
The "Garden over the Cellar" looking towards the east façade of the palace
Great Parterre, figural group representing the Flight from Troy
The palace by night
The Great Parterre, which extends from the palace to the Neptune Fountain
View of Schönbrunn Palace with the Obelisk Gate and Parade Court
The central section of the palace showing the perron leading up to the Great Gallery, with the Gloriette in the background. Of the 1,441 rooms in the palace 39 on the first floor can be seen by visitors participating in guided tours. The palace also boasts a fine selection of royal coaches.
Neptune Fountain, detail
Fish pool, detail
The palace painted in typical "Schönbrunn yellow", with the Parade Court and fountains
Schönbrunn Palace Theatre, view of the interior
Gloriette, detail of the arcade wing
View of Schönbrunn Palace from the gardens by Bernardo Bellotto. 1759/60
Bosket "bei der Kaiserfigur"
Detail of box edging and cone-shaped topiarized specimen box, typical elements in Baroque garden design
Clipped hornbeam hedge in the Light Avenue
Hornbeam hedge in the Light Avenue in autumn
Detail of the Rosarium in the western side of the park
The Fan in autumn
Detail of the hedge by the Great Parterre with a statue of the sibyl
Eurydice near the Angel Fountain
Putto in front of an espaliered tree in summer
"Hercules slaying the seven-headed Hydra"; figural group in the Meidling half of the park
Voliere at the centre of the "Schönbrunn Merry-go-round" in the Meidling half of the park
View of the palace and Great Parterre from the Neptune Fountain
View of Schönbrunn Palace from the gardens, coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz. 1782
Maze, situated behind the hedge of the Great Parterre
View of the dairy farm, once the private refuge of Empress Elisabeth, known to her family as Sisi
View of the pavilion in the zoo, central point of the Baroque menagerie, built in 1759
Detail of the interior of the pavilion, animal portrait in a Rococo cartouche
