The permanent exhibition Old Masters in the Schwarzenberg Palace presents selected key artworks from the Collection of Old Masters (Hans von Aachen, Petr Brandl, Matthias Bernard Braun, Lucas Cranach, Adriaen de Vries, Albrecht Dürer, El Greco, Francisco José Goya, Hans Holbein, Jan Gossaert, also known as Jan Mabuse, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jusepe de Ribera, Peter Paul Rubens, Bartholomaeus Spranger, Karel Škréta, Simon Vouet, Michael Leopold Willmann and others).
The display concentrates on the period between the 16th and 18th centuries and the pre-Renaissance tendencies in Gothic and Antiquity art as inspirational stimuli for Renaissance and Baroque art. The exhibition is conceived as a dialogue of the national and international impulses, influences and changes in the spirit of the dialectic of forms, styles and motifs. In dramaturgical terms, the display reflects the narrative aspects of European art from the Antiquity to the Enlightenment, as well as the historical context and timelessness of the masterpieces in an innovative installation.
The original entrance to the Schwarzenberg Palace from Hradčanské Square via the courtyard is restored. Three rooms on the ground floor are reserved for occasional exhibitions of artefacts from the National Gallery’s collections and two will serve for the Graphic Cabinets.
Author and Curator: Marius Winzeler
Collaborators: Tomáš Hladík, Martina Jandlová Sošková, Olga Kotková, Lucie Němečková, Andrea Steckerová, Marcela Vondráčková
Architects: AP Atelier – Josef Pleskot, Norbert Schmidt, Eva Vopátková
Graphic Designers: Studio Najbrt – Zuzana Lednická, Jakub Spurný
Collaborators: Tomáš Hladík, Martina Jandlová Sošková, Olga Kotková, Lucie Němečková, Andrea Steckerová, Marcela Vondráčková
Architects: AP Atelier – Josef Pleskot, Norbert Schmidt, Eva Vopátková
Graphic Designers: Studio Najbrt – Zuzana Lednická, Jakub Spurný
The permanent exhibition Old Masters is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek.
![Adriaen de Vries, Marching Horse, 1610, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1528/Adriaen-de-Vries%2C-Kr%C3%A1%C4%8Dej%C3%ADc%C3%AD-k%C5%AF%C5%88%2C-1610.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Doménikos Theotokópulos called El Greco, Christ at Prayer, 1585–1597, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1531/Dom%C3%A9nikos-Theotok%C3%B3pulos%2C-Modl%C3%ADc%C3%AD-se-Kristus%2C-1585-%E2%88%92-1597.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Karel Škréta, St Martin Sharing His Cloak with a Beggar, after 1650?, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1534/Karel-%C5%A0kr%C3%A9ta%2C-Sv.-Martin-se-d%C4%9Bl%C3%AD-s-%C5%BEebr%C3%A1kem-o-pl%C3%A1%C5%A1%C5%A5%2C-po-1650.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Michael Leopold Willmann, Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, after 1682, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1536/Michael-Leopold-Willmann%2C-Osvobozen%C3%AD-Andromedy%2C-po-1682.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Simon Vouet, Suicide of Lucrece, c. 1625, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1539/Simon-Vouet%2C-Sebevra%C5%BEda-Lukr%C3%A9cie%2C-kolem-1625.jpg?w=600&q=71)
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![Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo, c. 1543, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/2384/Agnolo-Bronzino%2C-Portr%C3%A9t-Eleonory-z-Toleda.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Georg Flegel, Niche with Fruit and Flowers, 1610–1620, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1532/Georg-Flegel%2C-Reg%C3%A1l-s-ovocem-a-kv%C4%9Btinami%2C-1610%E2%80%931620.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Michael Leopold Willmann, Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, after 1682, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/2386/Michael-Leopold-Willmann%2C-Osvobozen%C3%AD-Andromedy.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Petr Brandl, Simeon with the Infant Jesus, c. 1730, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1537/Petr-Brandl%2C-Simeon-s-Je%C5%BE%C3%AD%C5%A1kem%2C-kolem-1730.jpg?w=600&q=71)
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![Albrecht Dürer, Feast of the Rose Garlands, 1506, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/2385/Albrecht-D%C3%BCrer%2C-R%C5%AF%C5%BEencov%C3%A1-slavnost.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Joseph Wright of Derby, Portrait of Peter Perez Burdett and His First Wife Hannah, 1765, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1533/Joseph-Wright-of-Derby%2C-Podobizna-Petera-Pereze-Burdetta-a-jeho-prvn%C3%AD-%C5%BEeny-Hannah%2C-1765.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Matyáš Bernard Braun, St Jude Thaddaeus, 1712, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1535/Maty%C3%A1%C5%A1-Bernard-Braun%2C-Sv.-Juda-Tade%C3%A1%C5%A1%2C-1712.jpg?w=600&q=71)
![Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Scholar in His Study, 1634, National Gallery Prague](https://admin.www.ngprague.cz/images/1538/Rembrandt-Harmenszoon-van-Rijn%2C-U%C4%8Denec-ve-studovn%C4%9B%2C-1634.jpg?w=600&q=71)
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