European art
Overview
The European galleries feature painting, sculpture, prints and decorative arts from the 12th through the early 20th centuries, including works by Old Masters and Impressionists as well as artists of the modern era. The collection offers a rich and textured experience of European art, filled with imaginative stories, intriguing portraits, religious themes, and scenes of city and country life.
Highlights of the European collection
Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Ribera, Caravaggio, Cranach and Jan Brueghel presented in the Clowes Collection suite of galleries, and Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir and Pissarro
The IMA's renowned collection of watercolors and prints by the British master landscape painter J.M.W. Turner and a gallery of British paintings from the 18th and the 19th centuries
The IMA's esteemed collection of the Pont-Aven School, acquired from the Josefowitz collection, features paintings and prints by Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Paul Sérusier and other artists of this late-19th-century international school.
The IMA's Neo-Impressionist painting collection, considered the most comprehensive of its kind in North America
Greek and Roman sculptures and Greek vases dating from the late 5th-early 4th century BC to the 3rd century AD are on display in a gallery that also features Romanesque frescoes from the 11th-century hermitage of San Baudelio de Berlanga.
A special installation—Bellini and the Art of Devotion—focuses on the practice of painting in the Italian Renaissance in the studio of Giovanni Bellini. The installation introduces visitors to the materials and methods of the workshop and includes technical documents such as X-radiographs, infrared reflectography and paint cross sections. An interactive Web site provides more comprehensive information and documents the conservation treatment of one of Bellini's Madonnas.
