Lindenau-Museum
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Altenburg
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Thuringia
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Germany
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The museum originated as the house-museum of baron and collector Bernhard August von Lindenau. The building was completed in 1876.
Its main attraction is the collection of Italian paintings from the late Gothic and early Renaissance age (13th-15th centuries), considered amongst the largest outside Italy. They include, among the others, Filippo Lippi
Filippo Lippi
Fra' Filippo Lippi , also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento .-Biography and works:...
's St. Jerome in Penance
St. Jerome in Penance (Fra Lippo Lippi)
The St. Jerome in Penance is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi, dating to c. 1439. It is housed in the Lindenau-Museum of Altenburg, Germany. The work could be identified with the St. Jerome Penitent of which Lippi asked payment in a letter issued to Piero de' Medici in...
, Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...
's Portrait of Caterina Sforza and a predella
Predella
A predella is the platform or step on which an altar stands . In painting, the predella is the painting or sculpture along the frame at the bottom of an altarpiece...
panel by Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"...
. It also includes ancient antiquities and modern works, and a library.
The museum is a member of the Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen
Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen
The Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen or Conference of National Cultural Institutions is a union of more than twenty cultural organizations in the former East Germany...
, a union of more than twenty cultural institutions in the former East Germany.