![]() 1656) and Jean-Étienne Liotard’s charming pastel of The Chocolate Girl ( c. 1508–10) Rembrandt’s startling and tragicomic The Abduction of Ganymede (1635) Vermeer’s slyly humorous The Procuress ( c. As well as the Raphael, the gallery contains, among other things, Giorgione and Titian’s Sleeping Venus ( c. Its Old Master collection has been famous for its quality since the mid 18th century. It is by some distance, however, the most important. The gallery is one of 15 museums spread across eight buildings that fall under the city’s Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden umbrella. ![]() These glowing hieroglyphs are the work of Austrian artist Peter Baldinger, and not only proclaim what lies within but also that the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister und Skulpturensammlung bis 1800 – to give the gallery its full title – has completed its renovations. Sitting atop Gottfried Semper’s neo-Renaissance facade, and outlined in lilac neon light tubes, are the two insouciant cherubs from Raphael’s Sistine Madonna. Should a visitor to the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden be in any doubt as to the museum’s star attraction, they need only look up. ![]()
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