Pietro della Vecchia Allegorical Scene with Father Time, n.d. Pietro della Vecchia Temptation of Saint Anthony, n.d. Pietro della Vecchia Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus in his Carpentry Shop, n.d.

Admission is free for Illinois residents on Thursday evenings, 5:00–8:00, June 6–September 26. You can reserve your free tickets online in advance; your resident status will be verified using the zip ...

Nicolas Brouwer Abraham Drawing the Children of Israel to His Breast, and Christ with Kneeling Monks, from an Antiphonary, 1330/40 The Murder of Thomas Becket, page two, from a Book of Hours, 1430/40 ...

Teen Audio Guide Opportunities for Teens My Chicagos: A Virtual Gallery Work at the museum for a semester, summer, or school year. Make art, get hands-on museum experience, and design events and ...

This painting is a small replica of an altarpiece for the private family chapel of San José in Toledo, Spain. The production of smaller versions of commissioned altarpieces allowed El Greco to ...

The fourth and final large narrative canvas from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s decorative suite stresses the moral of the story and takes place as Rinaldo rejoins the crusader army. The boat bringing ...

The Franke Reading Room is a shared space in which researchers can consult the collections of the Libraries and Archives. Research Center materials are accessible by appointment only. We are a ...

This fall, Jitish Kallat’s site-specific installation, Public Notice 3, returns to the Art Institute of Chicago’s Grand Staircase after 14 years. Initially unveiled on September 11, 2010, the work ...

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Some forms of poetry follow specific rules to create patterns and build meaning. A cinquain (pronounced SING-kane) is an unrhymed, five-line poem. Follow the directions below to create a cinquain that ...

What new understandings and ideas can we create when we observe, make connections, ask questions and reflect on works of art?

Use clues from works of art to make inferences, or guesses based on evidence, about characters.