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Giorgione and Giovanni 20th-century art. The visitor
Boltraffio are all exhibited European Sculpture can admire works by all the
here. An excellent example The collection encompasses the major painters of the time,
of Baroque art is Giambattista history of European sculpture up including, Henri de Toulouse-
Tiepolo’s vast late 18th-century to the 19th century. Among its Lautrec’s These Women in the
painting, St James Conquers the 600 items are such jewels as the Refectory (see p151), Gustave
Moors (see p150). Man of Sorrows by Verrocchio Courbet’s Wrestlers, Edouard
and a small bronze sculpture by Manet’s Woman with a Fan
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). and Camille Pissarro’s Pont-Neuf.
This is an unusually dynamic Paul Gauguin’s Black Pigs, one
representation of King François of his first Tahitian canvases,
I of France on his horse. Other is also on display here. To
superb examples of Italian complete the collection,
sculpture, by masters such as the likes of Eugène Delacroix,
Andrea Pisano of the Ronni Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard,
family, can also be seen. The Pierre Renoir and Paul Cézanne
small bronzes from the are also represented.
Renaissance and Baroque Austrian and German
periods are further highlights. 19th- and 20th-century art
The German, Dutch and French is represented with works
Middle Ages are well represented by Waldmüller, Amerling,
El Greco’s The Penance of St Mary Magdelene by various works, including the Lenbach, Leibl and Menzel.
(c. 1576) 14th-century Beautiful Madonnas Outstanding works from the
and wooden sculptures from the collection of 20th-century and
Late Medieval Riemenschneider contemporary art are show-
Spanish Art
workshop. Donner and Messer- cased in the basement-level
The most important features of schmidt represent Austrian Majovszky Halls, which have
this collection are seven paintings Baroque art, the brightest period been converted into a sterile
by El Greco, includ ing The of sculpture in the region, with a white cube. Works from the
Annunciation, Christ in the Garden number of fine works. museum’s holdings are comple-
of Gethsemane and The Penance mented by master pieces of
of St Mary Magdalene, a subtle Drawings and Graphic great value on loan from
though fully expressive work. prominent private collectors,
The dramatic Martyrdom of Art artists and foundations.
St Andrew by Jusepe de Ribera The collection of drawings and Emphasis is given to the
should not be missed, nor the graphic art combines the work of donations made by Victor
work of artists such as Diego old masters, includ ing drawings Vasarely, and works by Marc
Velázquez, Bartolomé Murillo and by Leonard da Vinci, Raphael, Chagall, Corneille, Le Corbusier,
Francisco de Zurbarán. Francisco Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt, Robert Rauschenberg and
de Goya’s obser vations of daily with pieces from artists of the Timm Ulrichs are also included.
life produced paintings such as 19th and 20th centuries. The There are also pieces such as
The Water Carrier (see p150), which collec tion is one of Europe’s best. Renato Guttuso’s principle work
also deserves special attention. titled Occupation of Uncultivated
Lands of Sicily, Joseph Beuys’
19th- and 20th-Century famous bag object exploring
French and British Art Works the opportunities inherent
Works by French and British French painting makes up in direct democracy, and
artists are not as numerous as the largest constituent of the a lava stone sculpture by
Italian works, for example, but collection of 19th- and Antoni Tàpies.
represent the various styles of
the two countries.
French works include the
well-composed Resting on the
Journey to Egypt by Nicolas
Poussin, the grandly majestic
Finding of Moses, also by
Poussin, and the bucolic
landscape of Villa in the Roman
Countryside by Claude Lorrain.
The collection of British
paintings includes portraits by
artists of the calibre of Joshua
Reynolds, William Hogarth and
Thomas Gainsborough. Paul Cézanne’s still life, The Buffet, dating from 1877

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