In 1636 the great Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens was commissioned to provide about sixty mythological paintings for the Torre de la Parada, King Philip IV’s hunting lodge outside Madrid. Approximately fifty oil sketches for the project still survive...

Chief Conservator Bart Devolder and Caroline Harris, Diane W. and James E. Burke Associate Director for Education, recently discussed Bart’s ongoing work on the Museum’s Portrait of a Donor by Giovanni Battista Moroni.

With its groundbreaking stock exchange and merchant ships plying the seas, the northern Netherlands became Europe’s center of international trade, and many of its people enjoyed unprecedented prosperity. As the middle classes grew and became wealthier, they decorated their homes...

The most critical source of information about the Cézanne-Marion relationship is the eyewitness account offered by Marion’s letters to their common friend, the musician Heinrich Morstatt. These letters remained unknown until they were published, in 1937, by Alfred H. Barr...

It is rare for art historians or curators to be able to see the actual subjects of paintings made in the past; however, a number of Paul Cézanne’s landscapes continue to have a strong enough resemblance to his canvases to...

In the photographic age, representing our families has become a ubiquitous phenomenon, especially in an era of pocket technology that enables each of us to make and share images instantaneously. It requires our special attention, then, to recall a pre-photographic...

A large terracotta sculpture portraying the Virgin and Child, by Flemish artist Peter Scheemaeckers the Elder, has entered the collections.

An exquistely detailed figure of the crucifix, carved in fruitwood, recently entered the Museum's collections.

A self-portrait of English artist Jonathan Richardson recently entered the Museum's collections.