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highlights include Giovanni
Bellini’s graceful Young Woman
at her Toilette (1515) and
Tintoretto’s Susanna and the
Elders. This is considered to be
one of the major works of
Venetian Manner ism. Giuseppe
Arcimboldo’s series of allegorical
portrait heads representing the
elements and the seasons are
usually on show in Room 19,
together with other works
commissioned by Emperor
Rudolf II. Italian Baroque
paintings include works by
Annibale Carracci and
Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio, notably the huge
Madonna of the Rosary. Painted
between 1606 and 1607, it
depicts an intensely realistic
Madonna advising St Dominic
to distribute rosaries.

French Painting
Although the number of
French paintings on show is
relatively small, there are some
minor masterpieces. The Summer (1563) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
minutely detailed and highly
original portrait of The Court destruction of the Temple of (around 1750) by Thomas
Jester Gonella (1440–45) is Solomon come true. It Gainsborough. There are also
thought to be the work of Jean combines agitated movement portraits by Gainsborough,
Fouquet. It depicts a wily old with thorough archaeological Reynolds and Lawrence.
man, seemingly squeezed into research. Joseph Duplessis’ The German collection is
the picture, believed to be a Chris topher Willibald Ritter von rich in 16th-century paintings.
famous court jester of the time. Gluck at the Spinet shows the There are several Albrecht Dürer
A more formal court portrait famous composer gazing into pieces, including his Madonna
from 1569 is that of the the heavens for inspiration. with the Pear (1512). Other
youthful Charles IX of France by works include the Stag Hunt of
François Clouet. The Destruction British and German Elector Friedrich the Wise (1529)
of the Temple in Jerusalem, a by Lucas Cranach the Elder and
monumental work painted by Painting seven portraits by Hans Holbein
Nicolas Poussin in 1638, depicts There are few British works. the Younger.
the Emperor Titus watching the Perhaps the most appealing
Old Test ament prophecy of the is the Landscape of Suffolk
Spanish Painting
Room 10 houses several fine
portraits of the Spanish royal
family by Diego Velázquez.
The artist lived from 1599 to
1660 and was the court painter
to Philip IV. His works include
three portraits of Philip IV’s
daughter, the Infanta Margarita
Teresa (in one aged three,
another aged five and in a third
aged eight), as well as a portrait
of her sickly infant brother,
Philip Prosper. Other Spanish
works include paintings by
Alonso Sánchez Coello and
Stag Hunt of Elector Friedrich the Wise (1529) by Lucas Cranach the Elder Antonio de Pereda.

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