From Odesa to Berlin
The Gemäldegalerie is showcasing 60 paintings from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odesa, the famous port city in the south of Ukraine that has in recent years been ravaged by war. more
The Gemäldegalerie has one of the world's most important collections of European painting from the 13th to the 18th century.
The Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) displays over 1,000 works from all periods of art history from the 12th to the 18th century in 72 rooms. The exhibition shows the collection chronologically according to epochs, artistic landscapes and schools. Visitors can follow in the footsteps of the European masters on the almost two-kilometre-long circular route. Particular emphasis is placed on German and Italian painting from the 13th to 16th centuries and Dutch painting from the 15th and 16th centuries. A particular highlight is the Rembrandt Room, in which 16 works by the painter as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century can be admired.
The impressive collection of the Gemäldegalerie includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Titian, Raphael, Jan van Eyck, Rubens, Peter Bruegel, Thomas Gainsborough, Jan Vermeer and Caravaggio. Highlights of the collection include Sandro Botticelli's "Venus" (around 1490), Caravaggio's "Cupid as Victor" (1601/02), Tizian's "Venus with the Organ Player" (around 1550), Jan van Eyck's "Madonna in the Church" (around 1440), Vermeer's "Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine (The Glass of Wine)" (1658/60) and Peter Paul Rubens' "Saint Sebastian" (around 1618).
and Botticelli's "Enthroned Mary with the Child and the Two Johns" (1445-1510).
© David von Becker / Staatliche Museen von Berlin
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