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The word “Judaica” describes Jewish ritual objects used in the home or in the synagogue across history, geography, and media. Silver finials to…
Arts of South Asia
The arts of South Asia arise from a large geographical area, comprising India and the countries that surround it, and span more than four millennia…
Cy Twombly
Making Past Present
Cy Twombly’s first visit to Italy as a young man ignited a lifelong passion for the ancient world that is everywhere present in his art. Painted…
The seventeenth century in the Netherlands was famously a golden age of painting. This book assembles some two dozen masterworks from the collection…
Juno
A Colossal Roman Statue
The amazing story of a monumental statue If this monumental Roman statue could speak, she would tell of travels from a theater in ancient Rome to the…
European Painting and Sculpture before 1800
Major works spanning the medieval era to the Enlightenment from the MFA's superlative collection The tremendous political, religious and cultural…
A Complicated Past In 1912, when the MFA installed Cyrus Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit at its Huntington Avenue Entrance, the sculpture was a…
Fabric of a Nation
American Quilt Stories
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African…
Guide to Searching the Collections
The MFA collections encompass about 500,000 works of art. This guide is to help you find what you’re looking for—whether a specific artwork or a…
The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own…