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Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)
The Zwinger palace in Dresden houses a gallery of Old Masters that is home to Raphael's Sistine Madonna, famous for the two little angels at the bottom.
History of the museum
The painting collection goes back to the 1500s and the rulers of Saxony, who were great collectors. In the 1740s Augustus III bought masterpieces including the Sistine Madonna. The Zwinger gallery was built in the 1850s by Gottfried Semper, and the paintings were hidden during the bombing of Dresden in 1945, then taken by the Soviet army and returned to Dresden in 1955.
Top pieces
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Sistine Madonna Raphael, 1512 -
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Johannes Vermeer, 1659
In our gallery from here (17)
Sistine MadonnaRaphael · 1512
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open WindowJohannes Vermeer · 1658
The ProcuressJohannes Vermeer · 1656
NativityAntonio da Correggio · 1529
Dresden TriptychJan van Eyck · 1437
Rembrandt and Saskia in the parable of the Prodigal SonRembrandt · 1635
The Chocolate GirlJean-Étienne Liotard · 1744
Madonna with St. FrancisAntonio da Correggio · 1514
Madonna of Saint SebastianAntonio da Correggio · 1524
Drunken SilenusAnthony van Dyck · 1620
Joseph and Potiphar's WifeBartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1640
The Sacrifice of IsaacAndrea del Sarto · 1527
Madonna of the roseParmigianino · 1529
Antiochus and StratoniceAntonio Bellucci · 1700
AfricaRosalba Carriera · 1720
Two men contemplating the MoonCaspar David Friedrich · 1819
Altarpiece TetschenCaspar David Friedrich · 1807