CURATOR TALK: Why Close Looking Matters

Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art, dives into the history of the collection and examines how close looking has played a pivotal role in making important discoveries. Tostmann explores the practice of connoisseurship and reveals how it has led to the acquisition and reattribution of significant works in the museum’s European art collection.

Free with museum admission. Registration required. Meet outside the Museum Shop.

Bernardo Strozzi. Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1615. Oil on canvas. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. Endowed in memory of A. Everett Austin Jr. by Mrs. A. Everett Austin Jr. 1931.99.