Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters’ Picture Gallery): take a new look at old masters

More than any other, it was the son of Augustus the Strong, a passionate and knowledgeable art lover,
who acquired the majority of those paintings by Italian Renaissance painters and Dutch
and Flemish Baroque masters which now constitute one of the most important collections north of the Alps.

No need to be afraid of great masters!

During a 90-minute tour of the principal works I underpin my explanations with little stories
about the paintings. Why did the Drunken Hercules on Rubens’ painting
lose the club that gives him strength? In Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter by the Open Window,
is the letter in her hand a love letter? Why has Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus lost Amor, the god of love?
And what has made Raphael’s Sistine Madonna so famous? In addition, you will see paintings by Titian,
Correggio, Dürer, Cranach, Poussin and Liotard and, to end the tour, the well-known silhouette
of Dresden’s old town, painted in great detail by the Venetian Bernardo Bellotto, known as Canaletto.