Fall Exhibit at the McMullen Museum

Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting

Medieval | Renaissance exhibits nineteen rarely shown works from the Frascione Collection in Florence, founded in 1893. Featuring devotional icons, altarpiece panels, narrative scenes, and portraits from the late thirteenth throughearly sixteenth centuries, the exhibition charts innovations in the
craft and conceptualization of painting in Italy after 1300. These paintings represent a liminal epoch between the later Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, whose works and artists are shared—even “claimed”—by two divergent art historical fields, “Medieval” and “Renaissance,” with their own cultures, questions, and interpretive methods.

In the Daley Family Gallery, September 2-December 7, 2025