The Dresden Art Gallery is a world-famous collection of European painting from the 14th to 18th centuries. The paintings, which had survived the Anglo-American bombings and were in poor condition, were rescued by Soviet restorers and returned to Dresden after being displayed at the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts. A. S. Pushkin. Today, the Dresden Art Gallery is an art museum with unique collections of paintings by artists from Italy and the Netherlands. The Dresden Art Gallery, a collection of paintings in Germany, part of the State Art Collections in Dresden, is one of the largest in the world. Founded in 1560 as a palace meeting of the Electors of Saxony, expanded in 1722 and with the construction of a special building (1847-56, architect G. Semper, M. Haenel) open to the public. In the Gallery of Old Masters - paintings by J. van Eyck, Giorgione, Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Veronese, A. Durer, H. Holbein the Younger, L. Cranach the Elder, P. P. Rubens, Rembrandt, J. Vermeer, D. Velazquez, N. Poussin, A. Watteau and others. In the Gallery of New Masters - works of European art schools of the 19th–20th centuries