Portraits by European Masters at The Museum of Fine Arts

Tuesday, 10 June 2008 02:17

Boston, MA - Van Gogh painted Augustine Roulin with bold, exaggerated colors against a vividly patterned background of flowers and leaves. Van Gogh once wrote, "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal that the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring."

At the heart of the second floor of the Evans Wing, at the top of the great staircase that opens from the new State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, enjoy a special installation of some of the MFA's greatest European portraits. Paintings and sculpture span the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including canvases by Moroni and Gainsborough, by Degas and van Gogh, and by Matisse and Beckmann—as well as marble busts by Canova and Thorvaldsen. Sitters, some unknown, include the poet Lord Byron, Degas's younger sister, and van Gogh's great friend Augustine Roulin.
 
On exhibition 20 June through 5 January, 2009.
 
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