The Early European collection includes exceptional examples of medieval and Old Master works.
Medieval art includes metalwork; architectural fragments; stone, wood and ivory sculpture; manuscript illuminations; stained glass; and enamels made between the end of the Roman Empire (c.500) and 1500. The Museum's medieval collection is focused on French and German Romanesque (c.1050-c.1200) and Gothic (c.1200-c.1500) art. Highlights include a French sculpture of St. Christopher, a superb alabaster Madonna, an exquisite sculpted head of St. Roch, and a gilded figure of Christ, made in Germany, of exceptional quality.
The collection of Old Master paintings and sculpture comprises work made in Europe between 1300 and 1800. Highlights include a late Titian masterpiece left in his studio at his death; a marble Pan made in Michelangelo's workshop in the 1530s; one of only 37 known works by the baroque master Bartolomeo Manfredi; an early portrait by the French artist Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; a copper painting by Artemisia Gentileschi; and a stunning portrait by Hans Holbein depicting the wife of King Henry VIII's comptroller.
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