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  • Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

    Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

    The Museum recently acquired a Crucifixion by the fourteenth-century Florentine painter Jacopo del Casentino and a Virgin and Child, dated around 1500, by the Northern painter known as the Master of the Magdalen Legend. The paintings once belonged to Allan...
  • 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...
  • Roman Sculptures on Loan from Italy

    Roman Sculptures on Loan from Italy

    Three very fine works of Roman sculpture, together with an exceptional Attic red-figure stamnos, are now on extended loan from the Republic of Italy.
  • Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

    Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

    The first installation of loans from the Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program is currently on view. We recently sat down with Kelly Baum, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, to discuss how the Museum became involved with the Rauschenberg Foundation's...