It includes a detailed introduction and history of the collection. The catalog is arranged according to schools and epochs. It begins with German painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and continues through the nineteenth century. Seventeenth-century Dutch painting is one of the strengths of the collection. The catalog is lavishly illustrated, primarily in color.
Marginal notes provide technical details, provenance, exhibition information, etc.
This optical division of information allows the reader to move through the work with ease. Finally, the catalog contains a concordance of inventory and catalog numbers. One surprising omission is the complete lack of indexes. Gem lde des 17. DM 240.00 Renate Trnek, associated with the Academy of Fine Arts since 1975 and its director since 1992, begins with an introduction to the collection and a history of its development into a world class institution.