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From sphinxes to saints: exploring the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The new galleries at the MFA, Boston, cover more than 2,000 years of art. We take a look at a some of the highlights from the ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine worlds.
At the end of last year, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – the city known as ‘the Athens of America’ – opened a renovated suite of five galleries devoted to the art of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium. Lucia Marchini spoke to curators Christine Kondoleon, Laure Marest, and Phoebe Segal to find out about how they are using technology and even modern art to help visitors see ancient artefacts in a new light.
Saints Christopher, Augustine, John the Baptist, Stephen, Nicholas, and Sebastian accompany a central image of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child in this vast, 3m-wide polyptych altarpiece (below). With graceful tempera paintings and resplendent gilding, the early 15th-century work was
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