The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

November 19, 1999 – February 29, 2000

This exhibition, the first to be held in the newly renovated Old Master Gallery and Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery, explored the early modern impulse to find inspiration in the ancient past. This intimate exhibition presented paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper and books from fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Europe, drawn from the museum's collection and supplemented by loans from important public and private collections.

Curator: Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Chicago Associate Professor of Art History, in consultation with Elizabeth Rodini, Smart Museum Mellon Projects Curator.

This exhibition was made possible by a multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Catalogue available

Presented in the Art Before 1900 Gallery and the Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery.

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