 One of its most illustrious teachers was Bernardo Bellotto, the painter of the world-famous town scapes of Dresden.At the beginning of the 19th century, painters such as Anton Graff and Adrian Zingg made the Dresden Academy one of the most important art schools in Europe.The engraver , author of a famous engraving of the Sistine Madonna after Raphael, was a professor at the Akademie from 1814 to 1816.