After a morning in the Vienna Central Cemetery, Signe dropped us off at the Belvedere. We walked around to the front of the palace, now an art museum. We had about 1.5-2 hours to wait until our ticket time to go in. It was Really Cold today. There is another Christmas Market here, so we enjoyed wandering through it while we waited for our turn to go into the museum.
These are the palace gardens in winter.
We were told the Belvedere is a manageable sized art museum with a little bit of everything (easier to tackle than the big museum that takes days to see everything). We spent about 2 hours here, seeing the upper floor with the famous Klimt “The Kiss,” and some of his other works. There were a few other very famous pieces, but my favorites are always the French Impressionists (there were only a few here).
The view from inside of the back yard:
Some very important meetings were held in this room, creating a democratic Austria in 1955.
Here are a few of the art pieces I liked:
Christ in Gethsemane 
Napoleon 
A working woman 
An exhausted mother (on the floor by the bed of her child) 
Klimt’s “The Kiss” 
Afterwards, we went back out into the cold Christmassy world.
John is on a quest to find the best deal on Mozart chocolate balls.
Then we headed back to our rooms to put our feet up.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 