Description: Just around the corner from the Karl Platz this gem of a museum is a must for the art lover. It takes true determination to visit it; it's up 3 flights of stairs at the top of a building (no elevator) but the trek is well worth it.
As you enter the first thing that greets you is the Last Judgement triptych by Hieronymus Bosch. This is a large work and the demons in it are terrifying. His work has an amazingly futuristic look to it and the colors are still bring and fresh. In the same room is Lucretia by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which has been compared to Leonardo's Mona Lisa, as well as other early German and Dutch paintings. In the next room is a Botticelli Madonna and child, softly pastel and beautiful as only a Botticelli can be.
As if this wasn't enough there is Rembrandt's Portrait of a woman, a self portrait by Van Dyke, more than a dozen Rubens oil sketches among them one of the three graces, and a Murillo of two boys gaming. This and much more await you at the Academy of Fine Art.
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