GEMÄLDEGALERIE ALTE MEISTER DU ZWINGER - GALLERY OF THE OLD MASTERS
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As early as 1560, the princes electors of Saxony set about creating an important European painting gallery, which was greatly enriched by Augustus the Strong but especially by his son, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1696-1763). He acquired masterpieces from European masters of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. In 1945, the Gemäldegalerie was caught in a fire during the Allied bombardments; but the works had been sheltered in mines around Dresden since 1942. The Old Masters Gallery has been relocated since 1992 to the northern part of the beautiful Zwinger Palace, built between 1847 and 1854 by the architect Semper. The museum brings together a large number of masterpieces of the German Renaissance (Cranach, Dürer, Holbein), superb paintings from Dutch and Flemish schools of the 16th and 17th centuries (Van Eyck, Rubens, Rembrandt), wonders of Italian painting (Raphael with his famous Sistine Madonna, Giorgione, Botticelli) as well as paintings dated from the 17th century, from French and Spanish painting schools (Poussin, Lorrain, Murillo). During your walk in the Gemäldegalerie, you can also admire the Saxon landscapes of Bernardo Bellotto, known as Canaletto, to whom we owe the famous views of the old city of Dresden. A great moment.
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Here, only the masterpieces are allowed.
Certainly the largest museum of old paintings of Germany. The is listed in the closed circle of very large with the Louvre, the Hermitage of saint petersburg, Prado in Madrid and Les Offices de Florence.
Allow 4 hours for all to see and read. YOU WILL NOT TIRE!