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Sandro Botticelli, Giuliano de’ Medici, detail, 1478 | Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait, c. 1931
Sandro Botticelli, Giuliano de’ Medici, detail, 1478 | Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait, c. 1931 Photo credits: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders | Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Jochen Littkemann, © Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Gemäldegalerie | Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka | 16.10.2026 – 14.3.2027

16.10.2026

How do we see ourselves – and how have people in different historical periods wished to be seen? The special exhibition “Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka at the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings) ‒ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, invites viewers on a fascinating journey through the history of portraiture. Unusual juxtapositions of works spanning five centuries reveal striking similarities, bringing the pieces to life and providing opportunities to reflect on the presentation of the self and others, as well as on staging, roles, and character. Masterpieces by artists such as Botticelli and Lempicka, Mino da Fiesole and Rogier van der Weyden, Dürer and Giorgione, or Rubens and Gainsborough are brought into conversation with one another, revealing striking and often surprising affinities.

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Sofonisba Anguissola, Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola, 1557, 100 x 76,3 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 1705
Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Sandro Botticelli, Giuliano de'Medici, 1478, 57,1 x 38,4 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 1068
Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Sebastiano del Piombo, Junge Dame mit Fruchtkorb, 1512/13, 77,7 x 61,3 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 259B
Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Giovanni Cariani, Bildnis eines Astronomen, um 1520, 91,9 x 82,1 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 2201
Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Anthonis Mor, Herzogin Margarete von Parma, um 1562, 106,8 x 77,6 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 585B
Foto: Christoph Schmidt, Berlin

Eugen Spiro, Die Gattin des Künstlers, 1929, 100,5 x 81,5 cm, Neue Nationalgalerie, Inv.-Nr. A II 706
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Tamara de Lempicka, Porträt, um 1931, 45 x 37 cm, Neue Nationalgalerie, Inv.-Nr. B UHP 87/13
Foto: Jochen Littkemann © Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Wilhelm Schadow, Italienerin, 1831, 70,3 x 59 cm, Alte Nationalgalerie, Inv.-Nr. W.S. 196
Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

Hans Holbein d.J., Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze, 1532, 97,5 x 86,2 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 586
Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Giambattista Moroni, Don Gabriel de la Cueva, 1560, 114,8 x 90,8 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Kat.Nr. 79.1
Foto: Christoph Schmidt, Berlin

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Portraits!
16.10.2026 to 14.03.2027

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