#raphael

#raphael

Before the Second World War, Dresden was commonly regarded as Germany's most beautiful city, marked by Baroque silhouettes and filled with cherished collections of the fine and applied arts. Then came the Allied air raids of February 1945, and Dresden underwent what could be described as a horrific rebrand-becoming Germany's most decimated metropolis. Decades of rebuilding later, however, it is once again what Germans call a Kunststadt -a city of art.

The restoration confirmed previous reports that Raphael wished to paint imagery directly onto the walls of the four rooms. Two female figures, uncovered during a previous restoration and attributed to Raphael, were found to be painted in this way-supporting the fact they are indeed by the master.