Bode Museum
Bode Museum, at the tip of Museum Island
Bode Museum
Inlaid choir stalls
Bode Museum
Inlaid choir stalls
Bode Museum
Inlaid choir stalls
Bode Museum
Carved altarpiece
Bode Museum
Carved altarpiece
Bode Museum
Carved altarpiece, detail
Bode Museum
Carved altarpiece, detail
Bode Museum
Frederick II, King of Prussia
Bode Museum
Carved chest
Bode Museum
Carved chest, detail
Bode Museum
Niccolo Strozzi, he just doesn't look very bright. But he was a Florentine merchant, wealthy, successful, and politically important. So I guess I'm wrong.
Bode Museum
Three-sided lectern, all inlaid in wood
Bode Museum
Three-sided lectern, detail of the front
Bode Museum
Three-sided lectern, side two
Bode Museum
Three-sided lectern, side three
Bode Museum
The Last Judgment, in ivory and gilt wood
Bode Museum
The Fall of the Rebel Angels, in ivory and gilt wood
Bode Museum
Doorway in sandstone, carved to look like rough wood
Bode Museum
Doorway in sandstone, carved to look like rough wood, detail
Bode Museum
Baptismal font, showing Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea. Notice the funnel-like helmets.
Bode Museum
Huge triptych altarpiece
Bode Museum
Huge triptych altarpiece, detail
Bode Museum
Huge triptych altarpiece, detail
Bode Museum
Huge triptych altarpiece, detail
Bode Museum
Ivory signal horn
Bode Museum
Slab from a chancel screen showing two peacocks
The town
On the way back to my hotel after the Bode Museum, I passed this building with a display of monkeys clambering over it.
Pergamon Museum
Part of a frieze from the Pergamon Temple, in the Pergamon Museum.
Pergamon Museum
The main part of the temple
Pergamon Museum
Another section of the friezes. There are lots of them, some mounted on the museum walls, some part of the reconstruction of the temple.
Pergamon Museum
One corner of the temple
Pergamon Museum
Another corner
Pergamon Museum
Another section of the friezes, showing the battle between the gods and the titans.
Pergamon Museum
More of the frieze
Pergamon Museum
A Roman mosaic, showing a parakeet
Pergamon Museum
One end of the market gate of Miletus
Pergamon Museum
The central part of the gate. I don't have a wide angle lens on my digital camera, and the room isn't deep enough to get the whole gate in one shot anyway.
Pergamon Museum
The other end of the gate
Pergamon Museum
When you pass through the market gate, you turn around and find the Ishtar gate from Babylon. Wow!
Pergamon Museum
The other side of the Ishtar gate
Pergamon Museum
The center of the Ishtar gate. Pictures don't do it justice. It is so much more impressive in person.
Pergamon Museum
One of the two sections of the wall next to the gates. Mounted on a side wall, because there wasn't room enough to attach it to the gate.
Pergamon Museum
The other section of wall. All of this is built of colored brick.
Pergamon Museum
The gate is decorated with animals, like this bull.
Pergamon Museum
And this dragon (Babylonian style)
Pergamon Museum
And this lion
Pergamon Museum
Part of the processional way from the Ishtar gate to the royal palace
Pergamon Museum
Headdress and jewelry for a servant, from the Ur royal burials
Pergamon Museum
Another view of the headdress
Pergamon Museum
Assyrian bas-relief of an archer in a chariot
Pergamon Museum
Assyrian winged god
Pergamon Museum
Another Assyrian winged god
Pergamon Museum
Assyrian winged human-headed lion with too many legs
Pergamon Museum
His counterpart, they guarded a gateway
The town
Nice bronze model of Museum Island, showing, from left, the Bode Museum, the Pergamon Museum, the New Museum, the Old Museum, and Berlin Cathedral.
Altes Museum
Two Greek warriors from the Pelopennesian war, shaking hands. Just to show how old the custom is.
Altes Museum
Nice collection of Greek pottery. And no jokes about what's a Greek urn.
Altes Museum
Terrible picture (I apologize) of the back of an Etruscan shield, showing a wire and chain connection for a strap. There are four of these on the shield, but I have no idea how the straps were attached or used.
Altes Museum
The front panel of a sarcophagus. These pictures are both Etruscan and Roman, but I didn't keep track of which was which. Sorry.
Altes Museum
Another part of a sarcophagus
Altes Museum
And another, whole
Altes Museum
One more
Altes Museum
And still one more
Altes Museum
Last one, I promise
Altes Museum
Satyr pouring wine into a drinking horn. And you thought only Vikings used them.
Altes Museum
A greyhound scratching herself
Altes Museum
Outside the Old Museum is this statue of a really stupid lion attacking a horse ridden by an armed Amazon.
The town
A Berlin street vendor, all self-contained.
St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas church
St. Nicholas
The towers of St. Nicholas church
St. Nicholas
The lower part of the front of the church. There are several German churches with very plain fronts.
St. Nicholas
As much of the front of the church as I could get in a shot
St. Nicholas
The nave of St. Nicholas church
St. Nicholas
The church has some nice multi-colored groins in the vaulting.
St. Nicholas
A funerary memorial, with, presumably, the tomb underneath. I've never seen this arrangement before.
Neues Museum
A storage jar with a weird face
Neues Museum
Some of the gold from Schliemann's excavations at Troy. Almost all the rest was scooped up by the Soviet army after World War 2, and taken back to Moscow.
Neues Museum
A ceremonial gold hat from southern Germany, about 1000 BC
Gemaeldegalerie
A nice painting of a saint showing a king a vision of Mary and the Christ child.
Gemaeldegalerie
The same scene as part of a triptych. This is right next to the other painting.
Gemaeldegalerie
Gustavus Adolphus at the battle of Lutzen, before his death there.
Gemaeldegalerie
An elderly lady with a monocle, painted in 1782
The town
The Brandenburg Gate, from afar
The town
The Brandenburg Gate, a little closer
The town
The Brandenburg Gate, from across the street, and it was hard to take this picture without traffic.
The town
The Brandenburg Gate, again
The town
The Reichstag. The building was badly damaged at the end of WWII, but it has been restored. The building itself is still called the Reichstag, but the legislature meeting there is the Bundestag.
The town
Unter den Linden, Berlin's grand boulevard.