![An oval painting on parchment, framed by silver, of the artist Sofonisba Anguissola holding a large shield.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-07/SC81958_4x3_Crop_V2.jpg?itok=_Msp9HBj)
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![An oval painting on parchment, framed by silver, of the artist Sofonisba Anguissola holding a large shield.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-07/SC81958_4x3_Crop_V2.jpg?itok=_Msp9HBj)
Dive into the hidden and unearthed stories featured in the exhibition “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy.” Together with curators, professors from…
![A portrait of Madame Ramón Subercaseaux wearing a white gown and red flower in her hair while seated at a piano.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC457620_4x3.jpg?itok=R5xTuk8w)
Celebrate the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent” by exploring the many multifaceted ways John Singer Sargent and the subjects of his portraits created…
![An in-gallery photo of Edgar Degas' Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC6543_4x3.jpg?itok=HTBHYR2I)
At four years old I saw my first ballet, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker , and I immediately fell in love with dance. By age six I was taking my first…
Issue: Art for This Moment
![A painting of a woman, Lady Agnew, wearing a purple ruffled dress and ornate necklace sitting in a floral chair against a blue background.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC455644_4x3.jpg?itok=hMtjxRRz)
On view October 8, 2023–January 15, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) brought his sitters to life, but he did much more…
![An oval painting on parchment, framed by silver, of the artist Sofonisba Anguissola holding a large shield.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-07/SC81958_4x3_Crop_V2.jpg?itok=_Msp9HBj)
On view September 9, 2023–January 7, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—The history of the Italian Renaissance has long been told through the…
![A terracotta relief of six angels playing various instruments.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-05/SC446017_4x3_V1.jpg?itok=TWH5oM4I)
How do you start writing a paper, an e-mail, or a letter? Often our first thoughts are not the final product we want other others to read. Instead we…
Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows
![A painting of five grandiosely-dressed people playing instruments near a body of water.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-05/SC423889_4x3.jpg?itok=AG3LRhvW)
“We weep with the weeping, laugh with the laughing, and grieve with the grieving. These movements of the soul are made known by movements of the body…
Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows
![Visitors looking at a marble sculpture of a woman](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/Kore%20670%20Installation%20View_0.jpg?itok=hpK93GkV)
BOSTON (June 5, 2023)—About 2,500 years ago, the Acropolis of Athens was filled with statues of young women, called korai. Raised on high bases, these…
![A painting of a person sitting on a hill with a small house in the distance.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC456199_4x3.jpg?itok=n8J0h3Uh)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hosts First U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Painter Matthew Wong
On view July 1, 2023–February 14, 2024 BOSTON (June 7, 2023)—Matthew Wong (1984–2019) achieved resounding critical acclaim during his short yet…
![Portrait of a man wearing a turban and a sheathed sword](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2021-10/SC248847_4x3.jpg?itok=JwfeMzf1)
Africa, Infrastructure, and Empire in Rubens’s Portrait of Mulay Ahmad
Painted around 1609, Peter Paul Rubens’s portrait of Mulay Ahmad depicts an African man from the waist up, standing before a city and a massive…
Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows