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The Gemäldegalerie is an art museum ­in Berlin. It houses the ­holdings of old ­European painting from the 13th to the 18th ­century of the National ­Museums in Berlin. The ­collection includes masterpieces ­by artists ­such as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hans Holbein, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, ­Titian, Caravaggio­, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt ­and Jan Vermeer. The Picture Gallery ­was ­opened in­ 1830. ­Its current ­building was completed in 1998 ­and is part of the Kulturforum. The ­collection in its ­present form is the ­result of an ambitious ­two-hundred-year ­collecting policy­. One of the highlights of ­the ­exhibition is the wings of the Wurzach ­Altar by Hans Multscher. In 2019, the Gemäldegalerie ­recorded ­310,000 ­visitors, not least thanks to the special exhibition Mantegna and Bellini. Masters of the ­Renaissance, which was ­the ­most successful ­special exhibition of ­2019 with a ­total of 192,000 ­visitors. - To the article ...