"Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800" features more than 700 works of art, including pieces by Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Poussin; the largest collection of 17th-century Dutch art in North America; and the most extensive holdings of El Greco and Goya outside Spain.
The galleries' closure offered a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely rethink the presentation of this much-beloved collection," he said. Staff rehung every piece, organizing the display more chronologically, rather than in groupings by particular schools our countries. Vivid paint on the walls-900 gallons of it, to be exact-helps to reinforce the chronological sequence.
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