MFA Highlights: European Painting and Sculpture before 1800

$22.50 at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Major works spanning the medieval era to the Enlightenment from the MFA Boston’s superlative collection The tremendous political, religious and cultural changes that swept across Europe in the years from 1000 to 1800 fundamentally transformed the practices and purposes of painting and sculpture―from elaborately carved and gilded medieval Christian altars to Renaissance self-portraits touting the skill of the artist to 18th-century portraits in marble of the era’s leading thinkers. The 100 highlights from the…