Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Artists, Field Notes, Painting, Plants

Mushrooms in Paradise

Roelant Savery’s The Paradise in the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) is an astonishing example of a subgenre of mannerist landscape painting. Not only that: it includes one of the first historically known depictions of fungi in European art.

Lucas Vanhevel

Humans, Media Library, Painting, Plants

VIDEO: Curator Talk with Stephan Kemperdick on the Bladelin Altarpiece

Curator Stephan Kemperdick (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Berlin) take us on a journey to discover the history and interpretative frameworks of Rogier van der Weyden’s Bladelin Altarpiece, a long-standing holding of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. The talk took place on November 4, 2020 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.

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