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Sharing artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's European Painting and Sculpture department.
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Ugolino and his Children https://www.artic.edu/artworks/35688/
Restricted gift of Mrs. Samuel G. Rautbord
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12879/
Gift of Jacob S. Sherman
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Freeman Flower https://www.artic.edu/artworks/70135/
Bequest of John and Dorothy Estabrook
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Charity https://www.artic.edu/artworks/36492/
Preston O. Morton Memorial Fund for Older Paintings
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Saint Barbara https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100347/
Jean Bellegambe worked in Douai, in a part of northern France that was once part of the county of Flanders. These panels are the wings of a triptych, a three-paneled folding altarpiece, whose center (now in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels) shows the Virgin and Child enthroned under an elaborate architectural canopy. The two elegant saints are identifiable by their attributes: for Catherine, the wheel upon which she was tortured and the sword with which she was martyred; and for Barbara, the tower where her father locked her up to keep her safe from suitors. Saint Catherine also holds a ring, which the Christ Child in the Brussels panel reaches to grasp, thus indicating that their mystical union was the subject of the triptych. The tops of the two wings have been rounded off to mask their original function as moveable shutters to the left and right of the center panel. The backs and fronts of the wings were also separated; the backs of the wings, showing the Annunciation when the triptych was closed, are now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. George F. Harding Collection
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Portrait of a woman https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80524/
Max and Leola Epstein Collection
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Portrait of a Gentleman https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16151/
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio transformed the large workshop he inherited from his famous, fresco-painter father, Domenico, into one that specialized in portraits and festival decorations. One of Ridolfo’s most celebrated pictures, this work reveals his careful study of the portraits of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael in its calm, pyramidal, and expansive presentation of the sitter and in its active, searching light. The foreground parapet, or ledge, over which a hand projects illusionistically into the viewer’s space and the glimpse of landscape through the window are devices Ridolfo borrowed from Flemish painting. The headpiece (cappuccio) and fur-cuffed robe of the unidentified sitter were customary apparel for well-to-do Florentine merchants. Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Portrait of a Gentleman https://www.artic.edu/artworks/110871/
Gift of Mr. Chester D. Tripp
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The Covenant https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87054/
A. A. McKay Fund
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20155/
Gift of Jacob S. Sherman
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6831/
Gift of Barbara Deering Danielson
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Springtime https://www.artic.edu/artworks/894/
Henry Field Memorial Collection
December 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The Resurrection https://www.artic.edu/artworks/19336/
The Resurrection, the only documented painting by Francesco Buoneri, was commissioned in 1619 by the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, Piero Guicciardini, as one of several altarpieces for his family's chapel in Florence. In a turn of events that was not uncommon in the rapidly evolving artistic scene of early-17th-century Rome, the painting was rejected by Guicciardini and sold to another collector. The Resurrection exaggerates the bold contrast of light and dark and the realistic treatment of sacred figures that Caravaggio had introduced into Roman painting. Buoneri was apparently one of Caravaggio's closest followers. He may have been the "boy Francesco" who assisted the painter during his last years in Rome, a personal connection suggested by his contemporary nickname, Cecco (for Francesco) del Caravaggio. Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Phalaris and the Bull of Perillus https://www.artic.edu/artworks/29431/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Studies of Pierre Renoir; His Mother, Aline Charigot; Nudes; and Landscape https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100026/
Restricted gift of the Phillips Family Collection
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Pardon in Brittany https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111656/
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The Reaper https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94544/
Bequest of Celia Schmidt
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Bust of Piron https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13947/
Gift of Mrs. H. C. Dangler
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Saracens and Crusaders https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13208/
Simeon B. Williams Fund
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Pentecost https://www.artic.edu/artworks/41217/
Restricted Gift of Silvain and Arma Wyler Foundation
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Bacchus Feeding a Panther https://www.artic.edu/artworks/157162/
Michael A. Bradshaw and Kenneth S. Harris Endowment
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81503/
Potter Palmer Collection
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Old Age https://www.artic.edu/artworks/49723/
Gift of Mrs. Francis Neilson
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Jacques Lefèbvre https://www.artic.edu/artworks/149969/
Gift of Samuel and Marie Louise Rosenthal - Rosenthal-Daumier Collection
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Portrait of a Young Lady https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80539/
The youthful subject of this portrait is bedecked in jewelry that features gold, enameling, gems, and pearls. Linked medallions emphasize the puffed contour of her sleeves, but most of her jewelry is intended to call attention to the wide neckline of her dress, framed in luxuriant lace. The delicate forms of the pearl necklace, with its jeweled drops, and the showy brooch backed by ribbons complement the openwork of the lace ruff and collar. Paulus Moreelse, who worked in Utrecht in the prosperous Dutch Republic, specialized in portraiture. The exceptional richness of this unknown woman's dress suggests that she was port of the court of the House of Orange-Nassau. Max and Leola Epstein Collection
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM