This image ahows Gang Mariens uber das Gebirge (Mary's walk over the Mountains or The Virgin Mary Ascends the Mountain) by Josef von Fuhrich, which is housed in the Austrian Gallery at Belvedere in Vienna. It dates to 1841. The painting is a picture of the theme of the road to holiness of the Virgin. Joseph von Fuhrich (1800-1876) was a romantic artist. Born in Bohemia, Czechia, in the town of Kratzau, he studied in Prague and Vienna. Bohemia was then part of the Austrian Empire and Fuhrich received a grant from Prince Metternich to study in Rome, He stayed there with the Nazarene community of

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This image ahows Gang Mariens uber das Gebirge (Mary's walk over the Mountains or The Virgin Mary Ascends the Mountain) by Josef von Fuhrich, which is housed in the Austrian Gallery at Belvedere in Vienna. It dates to 1841. The painting is a picture of the theme of the road to holiness of the Virgin. Joseph von Fuhrich (1800-1876) was a romantic artist. Born in Bohemia, Czechia, in the town of Kratzau, he studied in Prague and Vienna. Bohemia was then part of the Austrian Empire and Fuhrich received a grant from Prince Metternich to study in Rome, He stayed there with the Nazarene community of artists.

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