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One of Italy’s loveliest and most important small museums, its highlights include some outstanding sculptures by Bernini and Canova (whose portrayal of Napoleon’s sister as a reclining Venus is arguably the museum’s most famous attraction), as well as paintings by Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Rubens, Dürer, and Cranach.
Included here are such masterpieces as Hans Holbein’s portrait of Georg Gisze (1532); the rather amusing The Fountain of Youth (1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder; Van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (1440); Van Dyck’s portraits of a Genoese couple (1626); Vermeer’s study, Young Lady with a Pearl Necklace (1664) and, among one of the largest Rembrandt collections in the world, a portrait of the artist’s second wife, Hendrickje Stoffels (1659).
Among the most important works from the 14th to the 18th centuries are Simone Martini’s St. Catherine of Alexandria, Cranach’s Venus, Hans Baldung Grien’s Eve, the Serpent and Death, Hans Memling’s Virgin, Christ and St. Anthony, Bronzino’s Portrait of a Man, Annibale Carracci’s Vision of St. Francis, Poussin’s Landscape with a Woman Washing Her Feet, Rubens’ Entombment of Christ, Rembrandt’s Heroine from the Old Testament, and Chardin’s The Governess.
It has an honorable collection of European artists, including El Greco, Rubens, Hans Memling, Cranach, and Poussin, and the British 18th-century masters Reynolds, Gainsborough, Raeburn, Romney, and Hogarth.
A German doctor named Lorenz Hoffman had a typical Kunst- und Wunderkammer : he owned paintings by Durer and Cranach, a skeleton of a newborn, two dozen miniature spoons hidden within a cherry pit, an armband made of elks' hoofs, mummies and various rare musical instruments.
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