Okeydokie. So. Altes Nationalgalerie. This one I liked a lot lot more than the Bode-Museum. Actually, I originally wasn’t planning on visiting this one (at least not that day), but me and MC had a little bit of a failure to communicate. We both said that we wanted to go to the Nationalgalerie. I meant the Neue Nationalgalerie, with 20th and 21st century artwork. She meant the Alte Nationalgalerie,with stuff outta the 19th or so century. We ended up going ot the Alte one though, if only because I made it a goal to visit all of the Museums-Insel museums before I leave (actually not sure if that’s possible hahaha)
Anyway, so there's some beautiful 19th century paintings here-- Monet, Manet, Friedrich, etc. The usual goodies. Here's some highlights (cause let's face it, I'm not an art historian)
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Queen Semiramis.
Apparently she got startled, and grabbed for her awesomely jewel-encrusted sword.
Manet, naturally.
This one I really liked- it's called "The English Tourists" or something to that effect.
If you look closely, the tour guide is showing something, there's two attentive people, one yawning, and one drawing a picture.
I forgot the name, but it's one of the most famous statues in the museum.
It's a sculpture of two sisters (princesses or something to that effect) who pretty much lived their lives together.
Marriage Proposal on Helgoland
Apparently the story behind this one is that there's a fisherman (in the middle), who's trying to find a proper wife for a young boy who works on his ship. He spied this little fisher-woman, and he's presenting the boy to her, grabbing his chin like "Ahhh look at this fine strapping young lad... why don't you marry him?" and of course she's trying to play the demure lady, looking down, fiddling with the strings on her skirt.
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