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Girl Reading a Letter
(around 1659) This exquisite VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
painting, of a lone woman by the
window reading a letter, is among Practical Information
the finest works by Jan Vermeer Theaterplatz 1. Tel (0351) 491
van Delft. 46679. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun;
limited access during works. d
m = & ^ ∑ skd.museum

Feast of Love (around 1717)
The so-called fête galante is one
of many splendid paintings by
Antoine Watteau, depicting a
flirtatious group in a park.
Tribute Money (around 1516)
Titian depicts the theme of this
popular New Testament
parable in an unusual way,
zooming in on the figures of
Christ and a Pharisee who
Miniatures shows him a coin.

Madonna and Infant Triptych (1437)
This superb small triptych depicting the Virgin Mary
with the Holy Infant, St Catherine and the Archangel
St Michael, is one of very few works signed by its
creator, Jan van Eyck.

Tapestry
room

. Sistine Madonna (1512/13)
This enchanting picture of the Sleeping Venus (around 1508–10)
Madonna and Child by Raphael This famous nude was probably painted
owes its name to St Sixtus’s by Giorgione, but when he died of the
Underground church in Piacenza, for which plague in 1510, his friend, Titian,
vaults Pope Julius II had commissioned it. completed the work.

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