Chrysler Museum of Art

This new book presents 40 key European artworks created before 1800 in the Chrysler Museum of Art’s collections and is published to celebrate the reinstallation of the European Galleries in April 2027.

The Chrysler Museum of Art’s collection of European art spans from the fourteenth century, with particularly robust holdings in Baroque art, including paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, and Guercino; sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Francesco Bertos, paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Angelika Kauffmann, an inlayed brass Mamluk candlestick and an eighteenth-century Brazilian sculpture of Saint Benedict of Palermo.

The Chrysler Museum of Art is focused on filling gaps within its holdings, such as work by women and artists of colour, as well as objects that speak to global artistic exchange throughout these centuries.

Edited by Mia Laufer
Contributions by Virginia Apperson, Mark A. Castro, Caroline Culp, Mary Catherine Langston, Mia Laufer, Carolyn Swan Needell, and Erik H. Neil

Author biographies

Virginia Apperson is the former Goode Works on Paper Center Coordinator. Chrysler Museum of Art.
Mark A. Castro, PhD, is Director of Curatorial Affairs, Chrysler Museum of Art.
Caroline Culp, PhD, is Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art.
Mary Catherine Langston is Brock Curatorial Research Assistant, Chrysler Museum of Art.
Mia Laufer, PhD, is Irene Leache Curator of European Art, Chrysler Museum of Art.
Carolyn Swan Needell, PhD, is Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass, Chrysler Museum of Art.
Erik H. Neil, PhD, is Macon and Joan Brock Director, Chrysler Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

• • Foreword by Mia Laufer
  • Plates
  • Authors