The Sistine Madonna
Raphael's famous painting, with the two angels at its foot among the world's best-known images.
Yes โ the Zwinger ticket covers the Old Masters Gallery, the porcelain collection and the Mathematics and Physics Salon together. Do not buy separate tickets; the combined one is far better value.
An hour and a half for the main works, three hours if painting genuinely interests you. The collection is broad and spread over several large rooms.
It has a room of its own at the end of the route, hung alone so it can be seen from a distance as Raphael intended. Ask for directions at the entrance โ many visitors come specifically for it.
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The Old Masters Picture Gallery is one of Europe's most important painting collections, housed in the Semper wing attached to the Zwinger in Dresden. Its pictures were gathered by the rulers of Saxony in the eighteenth century, above all Augustus III, who bought major works out of Italy. Its most famous painting is Raphael's Sistine Madonna, whose two small angels at the foot are among the most reproduced images in the world โ you find them on mugs and cards everywhere, without most people knowing where they came from. There are also works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Titian and Rubens, and a strong holding of Italian and Dutch painting.
Raphael's famous painting, with the two angels at its foot among the world's best-known images.
Rare works by the Dutch painter, of whom only some thirty-five pictures survive anywhere.
The building itself is a nineteenth-century architectural showpiece attached to the Zwinger.
Semperbau am Zwinger, 01067 Dresden