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• German paintings 14th–17th century:

Among many others the Pinakothek shows works of Stefan Lochner

Stefan Lochner

Stefan Lochner was a German late Gothic art painter.His style, famous for its clean appearance, combined Gothic attention towards long flowing lines with brilliant colours with a Flemish influenced realism and attention to detail....
 ("Adoration of the Christ Child by the Virgin (The Nativity)"), Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
 ("The Four Apostles

The Four Apostles

The Four Apostles is a painting by the German Renaissance master Albrecht D?rer. It was finished in 1526, the last of his large works. It depicts the four apostles larger-than-life-size....
", "Paumgartner Altar", "Self-portrait in Fur Coat"), Hans Baldung Grien ("Markgrave Christoph of Baden"), Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer was a German Painting, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht D?rer....
 ("The Battle of Issus"), Cranach

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a Germany Painting and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father....
 ("Lamentation Beneath the Cross

Lamentation of Christ

The Lamentation of Christ is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. After Crucifixion of Jesus, his Descent from the Cross and his friends and family mourned over his body....
"), Holbein

Hans Holbein the Elder

Hans Holbein was a Germany Painting.He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic art style....
 ("St. Sebastian Altar; Central panel: Martyrdom of St. Sebastian"), Matthias Grünewald

Matthias Grünewald

Matthias Gr?newald or "Mathis" , "Gothart" or "Neithardt" , , was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century....
 ("SS. Erasmus und Maurice"), Michael Pacher

Michael Pacher

Michael Pacher was an Austrian Tyrolean Painting and Sculpture active during the last quarter of the 15th century. His best-known work is the altarpiece at the church in the village of St....
 ("Altar of the Church Fathers"), Hans von Aachen

Hans von Aachen

Hans von Aachen was a Germany mannerism Painting.His name is derived from the birth place of his father, Aachen in Germany. Other variations of the name include Johann von - and - von Achen and various concisions like Janachen, Fanachen, Abak, Jean Dac, Aquano, van Aken etc....
 ("The Triumph of Truth"), Adam Elsheimer

Adam Elsheimer

Adam Elsheimer was a German artist working in Rome who died at only thirty-two, but was very influential in the early 17th century. His relatively few paintings were small scale, nearly all painted on copper plates, of the type often known as cabinet paintings....
 ("The Flight into Egypt"), Johann Liss

Johann Liss

Johann Liss was a leading Germany Baroque painting painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Venice....
 ("Death of Cleopatra")

• Dutch paintings 15th–18th century:

One of the most impressive collection worldwide especially for early Netherlandish paintings with masterpieces for example of Rogier van der Weyden ("Columba Altar"), Dieric Bouts ("Ecce Agnus Dei"), Lucas van Leyden

Lucas van Leyden

Lucas van Leyden , also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Netherlands engraver and Painting, born and mainly active in Leiden, who was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as one of the finest engraving in the history of art....
 ("Virgin and Child with Mary Magdalen and a Donor"), Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painting Painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives....
 ("Fragment from the Last Judgment"), Rembrandt van Rijn ("The Deposition", "The Holy Family"), Frans Hals

Frans Hals

Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for Portrait painting. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art....
 ("Portrait of Willem Croes"), Pieter Lastman

Pieter Lastman

Pieter Lastman was a Dutch painter . Lastman is important as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included Rembrandt and Jan Lievens....
 ("Odysseus and Nausikaa"), Carel Fabritius

Carel Fabritius

Carel Fabritius was a Netherlands painter and one of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's most gifted pupils.Fabritius was born in the ten-year old Beemster polder, as the son of schoolteacher....
 ("Self-Portrait"), Gerard Terborch ("The Flea-Catcher (Boy with His Dog)") and Jacob van Ruisdael ("Torrent with Oak Trees")

• Flemish paintings 16th–18th century:

The collection contains masterpieces of painters like Jan Mabuse

Jan Mabuse

Jan Mabuse was the name adopted by the Flemings painter Jan Gossaert; or Jennyn van Hennegouwe , as he called himself when he matriculated in the guild of St Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503....
 ("Danae"), Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting Painting and printmaking known for his landscape art and peasant scenes ....
 ("Harbour Scene with Christ Preaching"), Hans Memling

Hans Memling

Hans Memling was an Early Netherlandish painting, born in Seligenstadt/Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation....
 ("The Seven Joys of the Virgin" ), Jan Brueghel the Elder

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemings Painting, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. Nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel, of which the latter two were derived from favored subjects, while the former may refer to the velveteen sheen of his colors or to his habit of wearin...
 ("Harbour Scene with Christ Preaching"), Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....
 ("Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower

Honeysuckle Bower

The Honeysuckle Bower is a self-portrait of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife Isabella Brant . They wed on October 3, 1609, in St....
") ("The Fall of the Damned") ("The Big Last Judgment"), van Dyck ("Self-Portrait", "Susanna and the Elders"), Jacob Jordaens

Jacob Jordaens

Jacob Jordaens , was one of three Flemish Baroque painting, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting....
  ("Satyr with Peasants") and Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemings Genre works Painting active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer, moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade....
 ("Village Barbar's Shop"). The Rubens Collection is the largest one worldwide.

• Italian paintings 13th–18th century:

The Italian Gothic

Gothic art

Gothic art was a Medieval art art movement that lasted about 200 years. It began in France out of the Romanesque art period in the mid-12th century, concurrent with Gothic architecture found in Cathedrals....
 paintings are the oldest of the gallery, among them Giotto's

Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an italy Painting and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance....
 famous "The Last Supper", then all Schools of Italian Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 and Baroque

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 Painting are represented with works of Fra Angelico

Fra Angelico

Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"....
 ("Entombment of Christ"), Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo....
 ("Virgin and Child with SS. Dominici, Michael, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist"), Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italy Painting of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ....
 ("Lamentation of Christ

Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Botticelli)

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished around 1490-1492. It is housed in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich....
"), Fra Filippo Lippi ("The Annunciation"), Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italy Painting draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits....
 ("The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine"), Raphael

Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
 ("The Canigiani Holy Family

Canigiani Holy Family (Raphael)

The Canigiani Holy Family or Canigiani Madonna is a painting by the Italy High Renaissance artist Raphael. It is housed in the Alte Pinakothek of Munich, Germany....
") ("Madonna della tenda

Madonna della tenda

The Madonna della tenda is a painting by the Italy renaissance artist Raphael. It shows Mary embracing the child Jesus, while the young John the Baptist watches....
"), ("Madonna Tempi

Tempi Madonna (Raphael)

The Tempi Madonna is an oil painting by the Italy High Renaissance painter Raphael. Painted for the Tempi family, it was bought by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1829....
"), Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 ("Madonna of the Carnation

Madonna of the Carnation

The Madonna of the Carnation, a.k.a. Madonna with vase or Madonna with child, is a oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci created sometime around 1478-1480 ....
"), Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicily Painting active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of North Italy, especially Venice....
 ("Annunciata

Virgin Annunciate (Antonello da Messina, Munich)

The Munich Virgin Annunciate is a painting by the Italy Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina. Like the more famous Virgin Annunciate of the same subject, it shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation....
"), Titian

Titian

File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
 ("Vanity") ("Charles V"), Tintoretto

Tintoretto

Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art....
 ("Christ in the House of Mary and Martha"), Guido Reni

Guido Reni

Guido Reni was a prominent Italy Painting of high-Baroque style....
 ("The Assumption of the Virgin"), Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano was an Italy late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching....
 ("A cynical philosopher"), Tiepolo ("The Adoration of the Kings"), Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Italy painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
 ("Regatta on the Canale della Guidecca"), Canaletto

Canaletto

Giovanni Antonio Canal , better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching....
 ("Piazetta in Venice") and others.

• French paintings 16th–18th century:

In spite of the close relationship of the Wittelsbach

Wittelsbach

The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a Germany dynasty from Bavaria. Their major principal roles were as List of rulers of Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , List of rulers of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, County of Hainaut and Zeeland , List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne , Duchy of J?lich and Berg , Kings of Sweden...
 to France it is the second smallest section with works for example of Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain was an artist of the Baroque Painting era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting....
  ("The Expulsion of Hagar"), Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French Painting in the Classicism style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color....
 ("Midas and Bacchus"), François Boucher

François Boucher

Fran?ois Boucher was a France Painting, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture....
 ("Madame de Pompadour") ("Reclining Girl"), Nicolas Lancret

Nicolas Lancret

Nicolas Lancret , List of French artists, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans....
 ("The Bird Cage"), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Sim?on Chardin was an 18th-century France List of painters. He is considered a master of still life....
 ("Woman Cleaning Turnips"), Maurice-Quentin de la Tour ("Mademoiselle Ferrand Meditating on Newton"), Claude Joseph Vernet

Claude Joseph Vernet

Claude Joseph Vernet was a France Painting. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter....
 ("Eastern Harbour at Dawn") and Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honor? Fragonard was a France painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism....
 ("Girl with Dog").

• Spanish paintings 16th–18th century:

Though this is the smallest section all masters are represented, such as El Greco

El Greco

El Greco was a painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek alphabet, ????????? Te?t???p????? ....
 ("The Disrobing of Christ"), de la Cruz

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz

Juan Pantoja de La Cruz Spanish painter, one of the best representatives of the Spanish school of court painters. He worked for Philip II of Spain and Philip III of Spain....
 ("Infant Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain"), Velazquez ("Young Spanish Gentleman"), Jusepe de Ribera ("Saint Bartholomew"), Zurbarán ("The Entombment of St. Catharine of Alexandria on Mount Sinai") and Murillo

Bartolomé Estéban Murillo

Bartolom? Esteban Murillo was a Spain List of painters, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children....
 ("Baggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon"). The paintings of Francisco de Goya

Francisco Goya

Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish Painting and Printmaking. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history....
 were moved into the New Pinakothek

Neue Pinakothek

The Neue Pinakothek is an art gallery in Munich, Germany. Its focus is Western art history of the 18th and 19th century and is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world....
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