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A Masterpiece from Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Germany

Discover the beauty and historical significance of The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden, a...

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Ruins sometimes play a prominent role, and gloomy skies set a melancholy mood. Ruisdael's rare ability to create a compelling and tragic mood in nature is best seen in his famous Jewish Cemetery at Dresden. A larger, more elaborate autograph version is at the Detroit Institute of Arts. These works a...

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As Faggin first recognized,7 depicted in the middle distance is Rebecca offering her pitcher to Eliezer, Abraham’s servant, as related in Genesis, 24:45-46. The fountain required by the narrative is conveyed by a generalized depiction from the side of the fountain and bowl placed in the Foro Romano ...

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A pupil of Giovanni Paolo Panini in Rome, Joli was active primarily as a painter of theater sets in Dresden, Madrid, London, Naples, and especially Venice, where he was influenced by Canaletto. From 1744 to 1748 he worked in London at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket. He also produced topographical pai...

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This church, with its fine Gothic tracery, was founded in 1369, deserted in 1546, and later embraced as a motif by German Romantic artists. Carus visited in August 1820, making a drawing (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) that served as a study for the painting. It depicts a vista through two wind...

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Here, Saenredam has painted an accurate representation of the mediaeval Mariakerk in Utrecht. It was already in ruins in the seventeenth century and was later demolished. Saenredam had a preference for such old buildings, which he documented in drawings with great precision. On the edge of the awnin...

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Discover the masterpiece of Realism, The Stone Breakers, by Gustave Courbet.

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Left unfinished at the time of his death, it is generally agreed that the landscape and sky in Sleeping Venus were completed by the Renaissance painter Titian. The choice of a single nude woman marked a revolution in art, as it was an unprecedented element, especially the semi-erotic positioning of ...

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The image of ‘Betty’ is that of the artist, Gerard Richter’s, own daughter. It’s based on a photograph of hers that was taken when she was 11-years-old, 10 years prior to the making of this painting. It’s present in the Saint Louis Art Museum. Richer was born in 1932, and brought up in Dresden. He g...

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Nativity, also known as The Holy Night or the Adoration of the Shepherds, was commissioned by Alberto Pratoneri for his family chapel in the church of St. Prosper of Reggio Emilia, in 1522. Correggio did not finish the work until the end of the decade, and it was placed in the church in 1530. The pa...

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Personifikationen von Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter, Balthasar Permoser (Kammer b. Otting, 1651-1732, Dresden), Dresden 1695, ElfenbeinDie Jahreszeiten, bereits 1722 in den herzoglichen Sammlungen dokumentiert, wurden 1806 im Zuge der napoleonischen Invasion auseinander gerissen: Floraund Cere...

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In a landscape with ruins overgrown with plants, a bearded, old man greets a kneeling young woman and boy near the lower right corner in this horizontal painting. At least seven people move through the landscape beyond, and everyone has light skin and is barefoot. In the trio to the lower right, the...

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In its dimensions, The Cross in the Mountains is one of the largest drawings in Caspar David Friedrich’s oeuvre. The work was put on public display for the first time at the Dresden Academy exhibition, resulting in a commission from the Duke and Duchess of Thun-Hohenstein, who asked for the picture ...

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The Prodigal Son in the Tavern (Rembrandt and Saskia) is an oil on canvas painting by the dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn. It was painted in 1635. This unique double portrait of Rembrandt and Saskia (c. 1635-36) seems to offer an ironic and reflective gaze at his life. Here, too, an etch...

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