Gemaldegalerie, 2: South of the Alps; Plus Special Bonus Donatello Exhibition

After a modest lunch at the modest Gemaldegalerie cafeteria, we resumed our visit to the galleries, first to see the Donatello exhibition, then briefly the South of the Alps portion. We had seen much of the Donatello at the Bargello in Florence last spring, but missed half of it because a) we were unimpressed with the first half, b) we were tired, and c) there was a long Renaissance staircase to get to the second half, at the Palazzo Strozzi. We were fortunate to run into the Donatello exhibit in Berlin, since this second half was indeed impressive, exhibiting the range, variety, and innovativeness of Donatello's work. 

Helpful model of the Kulturforum area, down by the gift shoppe

Nice entrance

Just a cast, obviously, of Donatello's most famous
David

Bronze crucifix, originally for St. Anthony's, Padua
cathedral there, during his long and productive stay

Padua was also the site of his famous equestrian statue of Gattamelata,
the first life-sized equestrian statue in Europe since the classical times;
this is not it; nor did I find any description

St. John the Baptist, 1442, from the Bargello

The Dudley Madonna, which we saw in Florence, and probably
also in London at the V&A where it lives

Another David, 1404 or so; not the famous one

The exhibition was accompanied by 7 small paintings by Masaccio
(!) originally from the Carmine church in Florence; this one an
Adoration; characteristically Masaccio, IMHO

The Donatello exhibition actually had more visitors than the
museum itself, while we were there

Moving right along now, south of the Alps, Giotto's Deposition
of Mary, 1310

Ghirlandiao's Jesus and St. John Meeting, 1490s

Botticelli, Venus, well, you know who...

Botticelli, Mary and Child and Singing Angels, 1477

Botticelli, Mary Enthroned with Child and St. John,
1477

Finally, another beautiful tondo, Rafael, Mary, Child,

St. John, and an Angel, 1505