Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago Larry J. Feinberg, Bruce Boucher, Koenraad Brosens, Larry J. Feinberg, Susanne Folds McCullagh, Christa C.Mayer Thurman, Nicholas Turner

This issue of "Museum Studies" focuses on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, textiles, tapestries, and sculptures. With an introduction by Larry Feinberg on the growth and evolution of the museum's Old Master collection, the book includes five fascinating and richly illustrated essays written by museum curators and scholars. They examine recent acquisitions and present new discoveries and scholarship on a range of works, including a recently rediscovered Nativity by Fra Bartolommeo; a late-15th-century Hispano-Flemish sculpture of Saint Michael and the Devil; a pair of mid-17th-century tapestries designed by the Flemish artist David Teniers; a series of reattributed drawings by 17th-century artists such as Guido Reni and Guercino; and a stunning group of works by Charles-Antoine Coypel, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, and Maurice Quentin de La Tour, the preeminent pastellists of 18th-century France.

Larry J. Feinberg is Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Curator of European Painting; Bruce Boucher is Eloise W. Martin Curator of Sculpture; Koenraad Brosens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Musicology, University of Leuven; Susanne Folds McCullagh is Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator of Earlier Prints and Drawings; Christa C. Mayer Thurman is Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles; Martha A. W. Wolff is Eleanor Wood Prince Curator of European Painting before 1750, all at the Art Institute of Chicago.