The Museum is preparing a new installation of its galleries of earlier European art, from the 13th to the 18th centuries. Incorporating new acquisitions and beloved favorites in painting and sculpture, the galleries will also incorporate masterworks of drawing and printmaking along with works of decorative art. New interpretive materials will help make the art of the past come alive for the twenty-first century. Among the highlights: a masterpiece in tempera by Fra Angelico; a rare surviving woodblock by Albrecht Dürer; an extraordinary panel painting attributed to Hieronymous Bosch; a rare selection of majolica; one of the great religious pictures by Anthony van Dyck; drawings by Thomas Gainsborough and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; and the Museum’s new Grand Manner portrait by Angelica Kauffmann.

In order to accommodate construction, refurbishment, and the new hang, the galleries have been de-installed and will reopen on February 1, 2011. Please pardon our dust during the coming weeks!

Museum preparators readying a new installation in the Museum's galleries of earlier European art.

Top image
Carlo Portelli da Loro, Italian, before 1510–1574
Virgin, Child, Infant John, and Saint Margaret
Oil on wood panel
125.5 x 97 cm. (49 7/16 x 38 3/16 in.)
frame: 175.3 x 143.8 x 82.5 cm. (69 x 56 5/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Gift of Harold Godwin, Class of 1879
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Bottom image
Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566–1651
The Four Evangelists
ca. 1612–15
Oil on canvas
179 x 227.3 cm. (70 1/2 x 89 1/2 in.)
frame: 212.1 x 260.7 x 13.3 cm. (83 1/2 x 102 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
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photo: Bruce M. White