Story Archive

Story Archive

  • The Science of Art: Technical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries

    The Science of Art: Technical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries

    Looking toward a five-venue tour for the works in the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection—and the publication of an accompanying exhibition catalogue—the collection’s diverse group of sculptures was recently examined. In conducting such studies, conservators assess the overall stability of...
  • Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

    Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

    Bringing together objects as diverse as paintings, marble and bronze sculpture, cameos, drawings, books, and prints, Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe tells the stories of European perceptions of Africa in the Renaissance, of the Africans who came to...
  • New Acquisition: La Psyché (My Studio)

    New Acquisition: La Psyché (My Studio)

    Alfred Stevens's La Psyché recently entered the Museum’s collection. Using the studio as its setting, the painting exemplifies the style that made Stevens famous.
  • In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

    In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

    This selection of over sixty European paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and decorative objects, dating from around 1480 to around 1605, includes memorable images and riveting portraits of Africans, some of whose identities are known and others who remain anonymous.
  • Saint Paul the Hermit in Meditation

    Saint Paul the Hermit in Meditation

    Now on view in the museum’s European galleries is a dramatic, half-length Saint Paul the Hermit in Meditation , on loan from a private collection.
  • The Sentry (La Vedette)

    The Sentry (La Vedette)

    A history painter, portraitist, and sculptor, Ernest Meissonier had particular success with military scenes, thanks to a meticulous realism.