Rembrandt –
Titian – Bellotto:
Spirit & Splendour of the Dresden Picture Gallery at the
Winter Palace
at
Belvedere
When: Jun 11,
2015 - Nov 8, 2015
From 11
June to 8 November, the exhibition Rembrandt – Titian – Bellotto: Spirit and
Splendour of the Dresden Picture Gallery at the Winter Palace will showcase
approximately one hundred masterpieces by famous artists including Rembrandt,
Titian, Bernardo Bellotto, Guido Reni, Anthony van Dyck, and Antoine Watteau.
The foundation and development of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie [Picture Gallery]
in the eighteenth century will be divided into seven chapters, tracing its
evolution into a centre of education and exchange between artists and art
historians. Important history paintings, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits
clearly convey the prestige of this royal collection. And they also shed light
on the collecting practices of the electors of Saxony and kings of Poland,
Augustus II, called “the Strong”, and his son Augustus III.
Their reigns marked
an economic and cultural heyday that has been dubbed the Augustan Age, a time
when many buildings and the royal collections demonstrated the new power of the
Dresden court. Dresden’s Picture Gallery dates back to the days of Augustus the
Strong. The outstanding quality of this collection is largely thanks to the
efforts of art experts and agents, who assembled a large gallery of
international acclaim. In addition, important artists like Bernardo Bellotto,
were called to the court of Saxony, transforming Dresden into one of Europe’s
great centres of art.
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