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WELCOME TO DRESDEN GALLERY THE HEART OF ART Whether it's an altarpiece or a portrait, in the One of the most well-known motifs of art Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister every work is a history is found in the gallery: the Sistine masterpiece. Strolling through the high-ceilinged Madonna by Raphael with its two angels at halls of the Gemäldegalerie, one encounters a host the bottom. Even 500 years after its creation, it of familiar paintings that have been reproduced continues to move those who view it and has time and again: The "Chocolate Girl" by Jean- become part of a visual memory that has long Etienne Liotard, the "Sleeping Venus" by Giorgione developed a life of its own as a decorative and Titian, Johannes Vermeer's "Girl Reading a element on umbrellas and refrigerator Letter at an Open Window", Bellotto's views of magnets. Dresden's historic city centre and many more.