Alte Meister:1300–1800 im Städel Museum/ Old Masters:1300–1800 in the Städel Museum

The Old Masters collection of the Städel Museum can look back on a history spanning over 200 years: it began in 1817, when the Städel Art Institute was established as part of the estate of the late Frankfurt banker and art collector Johann Friedrich Städel in fulfillment of his will. Since then, the Frankfurt Museum has been the place where the development of the most important schools of European painting from the late 13th to the 18th century can be seen in exemplary major masterpieces.

With paintings such as Bartolomeo Bulgarini’s “The Blinding of Saint Victor”, Jan van Eyck’s “Lucca Madonna”, Sandro Botticelli’s “Female Ideal Portrait”, Albrecht Dürer’s “Job on the Dung Heap”, Rembrandt’s “The Blinding of Samson”, Johannes Vermeer’s “Geographer” and Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s “Allegory of the Arts”, the museum has key works from 500 years of European painting history.