The discovery of a previously unknown painting by an Italian Renaissance master, and how it went from media sensation to career-ending scandal. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the details of the painting's...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical area - comprising India and the countries that surround it - and more than four millennia. Among these objects are expressive figures in bronze and stone, dazzlingly intricate miniature paintings, luxury textiles and exquisite metalwork.00Arranged thematically around dualities of art and craft, sacred and secular, Hindu and...

Ancient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 350 CE that produced towering monuments, including more pyramids than in neighboring Egypt, and artifacts of enduring beauty and significance. Nubia's trade network reached across the Mediterranean and far into Africa. At the time that Nubian kings conquered Egypt, in the middle of the eighth century BCE, they controlled one of the largest empires of the ancient...

The collection of American pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is listed here in its entirety. This catalogue is intended to serve as a record of the museum’s holdings for comparison with other pewter collections, both public and private. The finest examples of hollowware (pitchers, flagons, tankards, teapots, etc.) are illustrated. Examples of the same type are included in the checklist along with other pieces of little pictorial interest,...