Made during the first years of the royal porcelain factory in Capodimonte, this rare set is one of the great masterpieces of European porcelain. With its malleability and whiteness, porcelain was ...

This panel was once part of the altarpiece decorating the high altar of the Carthusian monastery at Thuison, outside of Abbeville in northern France. Four saints standing in niches were painted on the ...

Though the invention of the printing press caused a revolution, it took decades to kickstart it into high gear.

Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church clarified and reaffirmed its doctrine and practices in an effort to combat the impact of the Protestant Reformation. This effort, ...

The curatorial team of Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica introduces one of Pan-Africanism’s key tenets: the idea of remapping the world. Two national treasures from Korea ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (American, born Germany, 1886–1969) Frank J. Kornacker (American, active 1940s–1950s) Holsman, Holsman, Klekamp and Taylor (American, 20th century) Pace Associates (American, ...

The military gear, musical instruments, and songbooks scattered throughout this composition hint at worldly and romantic pursuits, but the chief subject of the painting is the illusionism of the near ...

This seated Virgin and Child was carved in the middle of the 13th century, a time when private devotional practices became increasingly popular. In bedchambers or in small oratories, private domestic ...

The History of the Winterbotham collection Before Joseph Winterbotham established his collection with his gift to the museum, the Art Institute had regularly exhibited important contemporary art, but ...

This ivory statuette with its gangly Christ Child and rather plain-faced Virgin seems far removed from the aristocratic figures produced in Paris, which was a great center for the production of Gothic ...