Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

    Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

    In 2020 and 2021, the removal of more than one hundred large-scale and embedded works from the old building was a particularly complicated task; installing these objects again in the new building will also be a massive undertaking. Since nearly...
  • Peter Paul Rubens's The Abduction of Ganymede

    Peter Paul Rubens's The Abduction of Ganymede

    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...
  • Inside the Lab: Uncovering the Hand of a Renaissance Master

    Inside the Lab: Uncovering the Hand of a Renaissance Master

    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.
  • Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting

    Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting

    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...
  • Alfred Barr's Insomnia—and the Awakening of Cézanne's Interest in Geology

    Alfred Barr's Insomnia—and the Awakening of Cézanne's Interest in Geology

    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...
  • Exhibition | Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

    Exhibition | Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

    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...
  • Exhibition: Gainsborough's Family Album

    Exhibition: Gainsborough's Family Album

    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...