Together with Bettina Wulff, wife of the German President, Mrs Medvedeva visited the exhibition Renaissance Faces. Masterpieces of Italian Portraiture at the Bode Museum.
The exhibition brings together for the first time in a single display more than 150 works of art, from paintings to sculptures, including works by early Renaissance Italian artists from the collections of the Louvre in Paris, London’s National Gallery, and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The exhibition illustrates the history of Italian portraiture and includes works by Pisanello, Verrochio, Botticelli, Donatello, and Leonardo da Vinci, including ‘Lady with an Ermine’. This portrait, painted in 1489–90, is on loan from Krakow’s Czartoryski Museum.
Mrs Medvedeva also visited the exhibition at the Old National Gallery, founded in 1861. The gallery displays works of the classical and romantic periods, Biedermeier, French impressionism, and early modernism.
The First Lady and wife of the German Federal President Bettina Wulff had lunch together. Also attending were Regine Kayser, Ambassador emeritus of the Foundation for German-Russian Youth Exchange, executive of the Gartow Foundation Bettina von Bernstorff, and wife of Russia’s ambassador to Germany Lyudmila Grinina.