Above: Antonin Mercié (French, 1845-1916), Jeanne d'Arc, 1875-1900, The Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection, 2014...

Pictured above: Armor for a boar hound,  1942, in the style of the 1500s, 2014.84. 2 Like most good things, it was worth the wait. Helm...

Above: Kano̅ School, Edo period (1615-1868), early to mid-17th century; Six-panel folding screen; mineral pigments, ink, and gold leaf o...

Above: The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus,  c. 1490, Piero Di Cosimo, Italian, oil on panel, Museum purchase, 1937.76 As news spreads o...

We hope you enjoy the newly re-designed issue of  access  magazine . After seven issues over the course of two years, we thought it was ...

I’m delighted to report that the Museum has just acquired a first-edition copy of Politura Armorum (Polishing Armor), plate 17 from the ...

This past calendar year was quite the whirlwind for the Registrar’s office. Most notably, we packed, catalogued and transferred about 2,...