Amazing encounters from Botticelli to Renpica

About the Exhibition

Themed 'Portrait! From Botticelli to Lempicka,' this exhibition explores how portraiture has revealed individual identity and social status. Going beyond a simple art-historical exhibition, it reflects contemporary image culture, showing how portraits of the past and present come to converse with one another. The main artists include Sandro Botticelli, Tamara de Lempicka, Sofonisba Anguissola, Eugen Spiro, Giovanni Cariani, Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthonis Mor, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Wilhelm Schadow, with signature works including Giuliano de' Medici (1478), Portrait of Tamara de Lempicka (c. 1931), Sofonisba Anguissola's Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola (1557), Eugen Spiro's Wife (1929), Portrait of an Astronomer (c. 1520), Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze (1532), Infanta Margarita of Parma (c.