Tim Bonyhady
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119 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Tim Bonyhady’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's sort of staring off into space.
She's got a kind of contemplative, almost melancholy expression.
And she is wearing fabulous clothes.
In hindsight, it is one of the most terrible blunders of an Australian art museum.
In Vienna, he was always regarded as the greatest artist of the early 20th century.
The portrait is pretty much life-size.
It's 1.7 metres high.
She's standing.
She's wearing this extraordinary outfit which almost certainly was designed and made for the occasion of her standing for this portrait.
She's also got great jewellery.
She's got a brooch which has got two big solitaire diamonds.
She...
has pearl earrings, she has a couple of rings, one of which is the gold band of her wedding ring.
She both kind of looks at the viewer but also looks through the viewer.
She has come to Vienna to marry her uncle, which was then unusual, but nowhere near as unusual as it is now.
And her uncle, Moritz Gallia...
has come to Vienna.
And he has made a fortune with one of the great Austrian inventions of the turn of the century, which was the gas mantle.
And there's a period in the 1890s, early 1900s, where the gas mantle rivals and in some ways eclipses electric lighting.
It's one of the ten biggest cities in the world with a population of over two million people.
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