Search

Sylvester Rosa Koehler was born on February 11, 1837, in Leipzig, Germany, to an artistically inclined family of musicians. In 1849, Koehler, still a…

1881, April 11–May 9, “Exhibition of American Etchings,” MFA Boston. 1882, “Louis Prang and Co. Lithographic Prints and Tools,” United States National…

Bezold, Wilhelm von. The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry . Translated by Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Boston: Louis Prang & Co…

Resurrecting an 1892 exhibition on printing, anchored by a digital reproduction of its foundational catalogue.

Designed in the spirit of a European palace, the renovated Koch Gallery showcases paintings from Italy, France, Flanders, and Spain from 1550 to 1700 and German silver.

Drawing from the Museum’s collection of approximately 7,500 ancient coins, the gallery’s thematic and chronological displays emphasize ancient coins…

The Korean collection at the MFA—one of the best outside Korea—includes works of art from the Bronze Age to the present day.

The South and Southeast Asian Art Gallery exhibits important Buddhist and Hindu objects from these two deeply interconnected regions.

The Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648) split the Netherlands into two territories: a Catholic Flanders ruled by Spain in the south and an independent…

A grand period room is reinstalled in the Evans Wing.