Northern Italian Painting from the 17th Century
Since its founding in 1830, the picture gallery has been built and completed according to art historical principles. It offers a comprehensive overview of European painting from the 13th to the 18th century. The Italian collection is a focus, but northern Italian artists of the 17th century have so far been less represented.
Image gallery
Antonio Zanchi, Samson und Dalila, Detail, ca. 1670/1680, Öl auf Leinwand, Dauerleihgabe Günter Leidner
A gap in this area was closed thanks to the generous donation from collector Günter Leidner. Three paintings – by Daniele Crespi (Lombardy), Cristoforo Savolini (Romagna) and Antonio Zanchi (Venice) – complement the holdings of the Berlin Picture Gallery.
With other previously little-noticed works from the collection by the Genoese Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari, the Lombard Giovan Battista Crespi (il Cerano), and the Veneto-born Pasqualino Rossi, a small, new panorama of baroque painting of the 17th century opens up. In the late Venetian area there is also a previously unknown “Expulsion of Hagar” from a private collection and the “Apollon's Contest” by the Bavarian painter Johann Carl Loth, who lived in the lagoon city and has not been exhibited for a long time.
The presentation of previous depot pieces and the works donated by Günter Leidner is intended to give northern Italian Seicento painting a new visibility in the picture gallery.
curator
The exhibition is curated by Roberto Contini, curator of Italian, Spanish and French painting at the Gemäldegalerie.
A special exhibition in the picture gallery of the State Museums in Berlin
Additional information
Price info: Old Master Paintings Paintings from the 13th to 18th century.
Kulturforum all exhibitions: 20,00 €
Price: €12.00
Reduced price: €6.00
Reduced price info: Kulturforum all exhibitions: 10,00 €
Children and young people up to the age of 18 are admitted free of charge.
