The Walters Art Museum, located in Mount Vernon-Belvedere,

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, is a

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founded and opened in 1934. It holds collections established during the mid-19th century. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, a father and son: William Thompson Walters, (1819–1894), who began collecting when he moved to

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as a nominal Southern/ Confederate sympathizer at the outbreak of the

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in 1861; and

Henry Walters Henry Walters (September 26, 1848 – November 30, 1931) was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery (now the Walters Art Museum) in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will f ...

(1848–1931), who refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction of a later landmark building to rehouse it. After allowing the Baltimore public to occasionally view his father's and his growing added collections at his West Mount Vernon Place townhouse/mansion during the late 1800s, he arranged for an elaborate stone palazzo-styled structure built for that purpose in 1905–1909. Located across the back alley, a block south of the Walters mansion on West Monument Street/Mount Vernon Place, on the northwest corner of North Charles Street at West Centre Street. The mansion and gallery were also just south and west of the landmark

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in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood, just north of the downtown business district and northeast of Cathedral Hill. Upon his 1931 death, Henry Walters bequeathed the entire collection of then more than 22,000 works, the original Charles Street Gallery building, and his adjacent townhouse/mansion just across the alley to the north on West Mount Vernon Place to the City of Baltimore, "for the benefit of the public." The collection includes masterworks of ancient Egypt, Greek sculpture and

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sarcophagi,

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ivories, illuminated manuscripts,

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bronzes, Old Master European and 19th-century paintings, Chinese ceramics and bronzes,

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jewelry, and ancient Near East,

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n, or ancient

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items. Dorothy Miner became its first Keeper of Manuscripts in 1934 and held the post until her death in 1973. In 2000, "The Walters Art Gallery" changed its long-time name to "The Walters Art Museum" to reflect its image as a large public institution and eliminate confusion among some of the increasing out-of-state visitors. The following year, "The Walters" (as it is often known locally) reopened its original main building after a dramatic three-year physical renovation and replacement of internal utilities and infrastructure. The

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was on loan to the Walters Art Museum from a private collector for conservation and spectral imaging studies. Starting on October 1, 2006, the museum was enabled to make admission free to all, year-round, as a result of substantial grants given by Baltimore City and the surrounding suburban

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arts agencies and authorities. In 2012, "The Walters" released nearly 20,000 of its own images of its collections on a Creative Commons license, and collaborated in their upload to the

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and the

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on Wikimedia Commons. This was one of the largest and most comprehensive such releases made by any museum.

Permanent collection

Ancient art

The Walters' collection of ancient art includes examples from

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...

Nubia Nubia () ( Nobiin: Nobīn, ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sud ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...

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, Etruria and the

Near East The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...

. Highlights include two monumental 3,000-pound statues of the Egyptian lion-headed fire goddess Sekhmet on long-term loan from the British Museum; the Walters Mummy; alabaster reliefs from the palace of

Ashurnasirpal II Ashur-nasir-pal II ( transliteration: ''Aššur-nāṣir-apli'', meaning " Ashur is guardian of the heir") was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC. Ashurnasirpal II succeeded his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II, in 883 BC. During his reign he embarke ...

; Greek gold jewelry, including the Greek bracelets from

Olbia Olbia (, ; sc, Terranoa; sdn, Tarranoa) is a city and commune of 60,346 inhabitants (May 2018) in the Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called ''Olbia'' in the Roman age ...

on the shores of the

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; the Praxitelean Satyr; a large assemblage of

portrait heads; a

bronze banquet couch, and marble sarcophagi from the tombs of the prominent Licinian and Calpurnian families. File:Phoenician - Bowl with Hunting Scene - Walters 57705.jpg, Phoenician metal bowls File:Sumerian - Male Worshiper - Walters 215 (2).jpg, Sumerian male worshiper, c.2300 BC File:Egyptian - Statue of a Vizier, Usurped by Pa-di-iset - Walters 22203.jpg,

Padiiset's Statue Padiiset's Statue or Pateese's Statue, also described as the Statue of a vizier usurped by Padiiset, is a basalt statue found in 1894 in an unknown location in the Egyptian delta which includes an inscription referring to trade between Canaan and ...

, illustrates

Canaan Canaan (; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – ; he, כְּנַעַן – , in pausa – ; grc-bib, Χανααν – ;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus T ...

- Ancient Egypt trade, c.1700 B.C. (inscription c.900 B.C.) File:Roman - Portrait of Livia - Walters 23211 - Three Quarter.jpg, Portrait bust of

Livia Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – 28 September AD 29) was a Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Emperor Augustus Caesar. She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14. Livia was the ...

, wife of Emperor/Caesar

Augustus Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Pr ...

, (Octavius), c.35 B.C. File:Egyptian - Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man - Walters 326.jpg, Al Fayum mummy portrait, Roman

, c. A.D. 175 File:Byzantine - The "Rubens Vase" - Walters 42562 - Three Quarter Left.jpg, The Rubens Vase, an agate

hardstone carving Hardstone carving is a general term in art history and archaeology for the artistic carving of predominantly semi-precious stones (but also of gemstones), such as jade, rock crystal (clear quartz), agate, onyx, jasper, serpentinite, or carn ...

of c. A.D. 400 File:Roman - Funeral Stele with Latin Inscription Referring To Mithra - Walters 2317.jpg, Roman

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stele A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek language, Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ...

with

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through ...

inscription referring to Mithra

Art of the ancient Americas

In 1911, Henry Walters purchased almost 100 gold artifacts from the Chiriqui region of western

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Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

, creating a core collection of ancient American native art. Through subsequent gifts of art and loans, the museum has added works, mostly in pottery and stone, from

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

, Central America and

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sou ...

, including pieces from the Mesoamerican Olmec,

Aztec The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl ...

, and Maya cultures, as well as the Moche and

Inca The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, ( Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The adm ...

peoples of

. File:Colima - Dancing Figure Whistle - Walters 20092029 - Three Quarter Left.jpg, Whistle in the form of a dancing figure from Colima, Mexico, pottery, c. 300 B.C. - A.D. 200 File:Mayan - Stucco Portrait Head - Walters 20092046 - View A.jpg, Maya head in

stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...

, A.D. 550-850 File:Mixteca-Puebla style labret.jpg, Mixteca-Puebla style

labret A labret is a form of body piercing. Taken literally, it is any type of adornment that is attached to the lip (labrum). However, the term usually refers to a piercing that is below the bottom lip, above the chin. It is sometimes referred to as a ...

, obsidian

Asian art

Highlights of the Asian art collection assembled earlier by Baltimorean father and son collectors William T. and

include

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ese arms and armor, and Chinese and Japanese porcelains, lacquers, and metalwork. Among the museum's outstanding works of Asian art is a late-12th- or early-13th-century Cambodian bronze of the eight-armed Avalokiteshvara, a T'ang dynasty earthenware camel, and an intricately painted

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...

wine jar. The museum owns the oldest surviving Chinese wood-and-lacquer image of the

Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in L ...

(late 6th century AD). It is exhibited in a gallery dedicated solely to this work. The museum holds one of the largest and finest collections of Thai (

Siam Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

) bronze, scrolls, and banner paintings in the world. Indian - Head of a Jain Tirthankara - Walters 25262.jpg, Head of a

Jain Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being ...

Tirthankara In Jainism, a ''Tirthankara'' (Sanskrit: '; English: literally a ' ford-maker') is a saviour and spiritual teacher of the '' dharma'' (righteous path). The word ''tirthankara'' signifies the founder of a '' tirtha'', which is a fordable pass ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

, 10th century Indian - Mandala of Padmavati - Walters 543007.jpg, 'Mandala of Padmavati' - bronze statue of

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, 11th century Indian_-_Jina_Parshvanatha_with_Attendants_-_Walters_543013.jpg, Brass idol of tirthankar

Parshvanatha ''Parshvanatha'' (), also known as ''Parshva'' () and ''Parasnath'', was the 23rd of 24 ''Tirthankaras'' (supreme preacher of dharma) of Jainism. He is the only Tirthankara who gained the title of ''Kalīkālkalpataru ( Kalpavriksha in this "Ka ...

, India, 16th century File:Chinese - Seated Guanyin (Kuan-yin) Bodhisattva - Walters 25256 - Detail C.jpg, Detail of

wood and lacquer

Guanyin Guanyin () is a Bodhisattva associated with compassion. She is the East Asian representation of Avalokiteśvara ( sa, अवलोकितेश्वर) and has been adopted by other Eastern religions, including Chinese folk religion. She ...

File:Tibetan - Phurbu-cum-chopper - Walters 511448 - View A.jpg, 15th-century

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

, an ritual knife and chopper File:Thai - Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 10 (Indra's Realm) - Walters 35269 - A T Front.jpg, 19th-century Thai illustration of Vessantara Jataka, Ch 10 File:Chinese - Jar with Design of a Dragon - Walters 47691.jpg, 18th-century Chinese jar with dragon File:Hashiguchi Goyo - Woman in Blue Combing Her Hair - Walters 95880.jpg, Hashiguchi Goyo, ''Woman in Blue Combing Her Hair'', woodblock print,

, 1920

Islamic art

Islamic Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the ma ...

art in all media is represented at the Walters. Among the highlights are a 7th-century carved and hammered silver bowl from

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, (ancient

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

); a 13th-century candlestick made of copper, silver, and gold from the

Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

era in

; 16th-century mausoleum doors decorated with intricate wood carvings in a radiating star pattern; a 17th-century silk sash from the

Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...

; and a 17th-century Turkish tile with an image of the Masjid al-Haram ("Great Mosque of Mecca"), the center of

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the ...

Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow v ...

, (modern

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Ara ...

). The Walters Museum owns an array of

manuscripts. These include a 15th-century

Koran The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , si ...

from northern

, executed at the height of the Timurid Empire; a 16th-century copy of the " Khamsa of Nizami (

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, Or. 12208), Khamsa" by Amir Khusraw, illustrated by a number of famous artists for the Emperor

Akbar Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...

; and a Turkish calligraphy album by Sheikh Hamadullah Al-Amasi, one of the greatest calligraphers of all time. Walters Art Museum, MS W.613 contains five Mughal miniatures from an important " Khamsa of Nizami" made for the Emperor

; the rest are in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It ...

. File:Islamic - Folio with Kufic Script - Walters W55236B - Full Page.jpg, Early

Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , si ...

page in Kufic script, 9th century File:Egyptian - Candlestick Base - Walters 54459 - View K.jpg,

-era in

candlestick base, c1240, brass with silver, gold and copper inlays File:Dharm Das - The Death of Darius - Walters W61326B - Full Page.jpg, ''The Death of Darius'', Mughal miniature from

's '' Khamsa of Nizami'', 1595, MS W.613 File:Turkish - Rifle - Walters 5184 - Detail L.jpg, Detail of an 18th-century ceremonial jeweled Turkish rifle File:Islamic - Binding from Qur'an - Walters W8531binding - Bottom Interior.jpg, Inside of

cover, 19th century, sub-Saharan

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Medieval European art

Henry Walters assembled a collection of art produced during the Middle Ages in all the major artistic media of the period. This forms the basis of the Walters'

collection, for which the museum is best known internationally. Considered one of the best collections of medieval art in the United States, the museum's holdings include examples of metalwork, sculpture, stained glass, textiles, icons, and other paintings. The collection is especially renowned for its ivories, enamels,

reliquaries A reliquary (also referred to as a '' shrine'', by the French term ''châsse'', and historically including '' phylacteries'') is a container for relics. A portable reliquary may be called a ''fereter'', and a chapel in which it is housed a ''f ...

, early

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

silver, post-Byzantine art,

illuminated manuscript An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, th ...

s, and the largest and finest collection of Ethiopian Orthodox Church art outside Ethiopia. The Walters' medieval collection features unique objects such as the Byzantine agate Rubens Vase that belonged to the painter

Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

(accession no. 42.562) and the earliest-surviving image of the "Virgin of Tenderness", an ivory carving produced in Egypt in the 6th or 7th century (accession no. 71.297). Sculpted heads from the royal Abbey of St. Denis are rare surviving examples of portal sculptures that are directly connected with the origins of Gothic art in 12th-century

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

(accession nos. 27.21 and 27.22). An ivory casket covered with scenes of jousting knights is one of about a dozen such objects to survive in the world (accession no. 71.264). Many of these works are on display in the museum's galleries. Works from the medieval collection are also frequently included in special touring exhibitions, such as ''Treasures of Heaven'', an exhibition about

relic In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...

s and reliquaries that was on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art in (

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S ...

), the Walters Art Museum, and the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

in 2010–11. Works in the medieval collection are the subject of active research by the curatorial and conservation departments of the museum, and visiting researchers frequently make use of the museum's holdings. In-depth technical research carried on these objects is made available to the public through publications and exhibitions, as in the case of the Amandus Shrine (accession no. 53.9), which was featured in a small special exhibition titled ''The Special Dead'' in 2008–09. File:Hunnish - Set of Horse Trappings - Walters 571050, 571051, 571052, 571060 - View A.jpg,

Hunnish The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th century AD. According to European tradition, they were first reported living east of the Volga River, in an area that was par ...

set of

horse trappings Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals. This equipment includes such items as saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, and harnesses. Equipping a horse is ...

, 4th century File:French - Box Lid with a Tournament - Walters 71274.jpg, French Gothic ivory Box Lid with a Tournament, 14th century (Walters 71274) File:Master of Walters 323 - Leaf from Barbavara Book of Hours - Walters W32352R - Open Obverse.jpg, Leaf from Barbavara

Book of Hours The book of hours is a Christian devotional book used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscri ...

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

c. 1440 File:English - Resurrection - Walters 27308.jpg, 15th century Nottingham alabaster panel of the '' Resurrection of Christ'' File:German - Chandelier - Walters 61309.jpg, German

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antler and wood, 15th century There are also Late Medieval devotional Italian paintings by these painters at the Walters: Tommaso da Modena,

Pietro Lorenzetti Pietro Lorenzetti (; – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimen ...

, Andrea di Bartolo (''Resurrection''), Alberto Sotio,

Bartolomeo di Tommaso Bartolomeo di Tommaso, also known as Bartolomeo da Foligno (born in Foligno, c. 1400, active by 1425, died 1453–54) was an Italian painter of the Umbro-Sienese school. Life and career He was in Ancona from 1425 to 1442, when he returned to Fol ...

(''Death of Saint Francis''), Naddo Ceccarelli, Master of Saint Verdiana, Niccolo di Segna (''Saint Lucy''),

Orcagna Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – 25 August 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. He worked as a consultant at the Florence Cathedral and supervised the construction of the fa ...

Olivuccio di Ciccarello Olivuccio Ceccarello di Ciccarello (died 1439) was an Italian painter. Little is known of his life. He was a native of Camerino and was active from 1388 until his death. In 2002 works formerly attributed to an obscure painter named Carlo da ...

, Master of Panzano Triptych and Giovanni del Biondo.

Renaissance, Baroque and 18th-century European art

The collection of European Renaissance and Baroque art features holdings of paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, metal work, arms and armor. The highlights include Hugo van der Goes' ''Donor with Saint John the Baptist'', Heemskerck's ''Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World'', Giambattista Pittoni's ''Sacrifice of Polyxena'', the ''Madonna of the Candelabra'', from the studio of

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual ...

, Veronese's ''Portrait Of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Porzia'', El Greco's ''Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata'',

Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his ...

's " bozzetto" of ''Risen Christ'', Tiepolo's ''Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva'', and ''The Ideal City'' attributed to

Fra Carnevale Fra Carnevale OP ( 1420–25 – 1484) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in Urbino. Widely regarded as one of the most enigmatic artists, there are only nine works that can be definitively attributed to Carnevale know ...

. The museum has one of ten surviving examples of the Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship from the 1750s and 1760s. File:Fra Carnevale - The Ideal City - Walters 37677.jpg, ''The Ideal City'' (c. 1480–1484) attributed to

File:Workshop of Raphael - Madonna of the Candelabra - Walters 37484.jpg, ''

Madonna of the Candelabra The ''Madonna of the Candelabra'' is a Madonna painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, dating to about 1513-1514 and is in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Painted during his Roman period, this tondo Madonna of ...

'' (c. 1513) by

. File:Master Jean de Mauléon - Leaf from Book of Hours - Walters W44976R - Open Obverse.jpg, Leaf from Book of Hours, French Renaissance, 1524 File:Giovanni Bernardi - The Battle of Pavia - Walters 4168.jpg, The '' Battle of Pavia'', engraved on rock crystal for a Medici Cardinal by Giovanni Bernardi, 1530s File:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva - Walters 37657.jpg, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ''

Scipio Africanus Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (, , ; 236/235–183 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the best military co ...

Freeing Massiva'', c. 1720 File:Giovanni Battista Pittoni - The Sacrifice of Polyxena - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Sacrifice of Polyxena'', Giambattista Pittoni Image:Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - Portrait of Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra - Walters 371205.jpg,

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

, ''Portrait of

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Prospero Colonna di Sciarra Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (17 January 1707 – 20 April 1765) was an Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano. He was the brother of cardinal Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra. Biography He was named Cardinal-Deacon in the consisto ...

'', c. 1750 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory - Potpourri Vase (Vase potpourri à vaisseau) - Walters 48559.jpg, Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship, 1764

19th-century European art

William and Henry Walters collected works by late-19th-century French academic masters and Impressionists. Highlights of the collection include '' Odalisque with Slave'' by

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...

(a second version);

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

's ''Springtime''; Alfred Sisley's panoramic view of the Seine Valley; and

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Bor ...

's realist masterpiece, ''The Café Concert''. Henry Walters was particularly interested in the courtly arts of 18th-century France. The museum's collection of Sèvres porcelain includes a number of pieces that were made for members of the Royal Bourbon Court at Versailles Palace outside of

. Portrait miniatures and the examples of goldsmiths' works, especially snuffboxes and watches, are displayed in the Treasury, along with some exceptional 19th- and early-20th-century works. Among them are examples of

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-styled jewelry by

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, jeweled objects by the House of Fabergé, including two

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n Imperial Easter eggs, and precious jewels by Tiffany and Co. of

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. The Walters' collection presents an overview of 19th-century European art, particularly art from

. From the first half of the century come major paintings by Ingres, Géricault, and Delacroix. William Walters stayed in Paris with his family during the

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, because of his notorious Southern-leanings, and he soon developed a keen interest in contemporary European painting. He either commissioned directly from the artists or purchased at auctions such major works by the Barbizon masters, including Jean-François Millet and Henri Rousseau; the academic masters Jean-Léon Gérôme and Lawrence Alma-Tadema; and even the modernists Monet, Manet, and Sisley, the Italian

Antonio Rotta Antonio Rotta (28 February 1828 – 10/11 September 1903) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects. Biography Rotta was born on 28 February 1828 in Gorizia in the Kingdom of Illyria. He enrolled at the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti ...

. File:Antonio Rotta - The Hopeless Case - Walters 37182.jpg, ''The Hopeless Case'' (1855) by

File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington - Walters 3741.jpg, ''Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington'' (1817) by

Joseph Mallord William Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbul ...

File:Asher Brown Durand - The Catskills - Walters 37122.jpg, ''

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'' (1859) by Asher Brown Durand. File:Alfred Stevens - News from Afar - Walters 37183.jpg, ''News from Afar'' (1860) by Alfred Stevens, (Exhibition: " Salute to Belgium, 1980) File:Claude Monet - Springtime - Google Art Project.jpg, ''

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'' (1872) by

. File:Edouard Manet - At the Café - Walters 37893.jpg, '' The Café-Concert'' (ca. 1879) by

. File:Alfred Sisley - The Terrace at Saint-Germain, Spring - Walters 37992.jpg, '' The Terrace at Saint-Germain, Spring'' (1875) by Alfred Sisley. File:Léon Bonvin - Still Life on Kitchen Table with Celery, Parsley, Bowl, and Cruets - Walters 371504.jpg, Léon Bonvin - ''Still Life on Kitchen Table with Celery, Parsley, Bowl, and Cruets'' - Walters 371504

Drawings

File:Félicien Rops - Confessional, Toledo - Walters 372804.jpg, ''Confessional, Toledo'', by Félicien Rops, 1889 File:Adolphe-René Lefevre - Courtier Standing by a Column - Walters 371630.jpg, ''Courtier Standing by a Column'', by Adolphe-René Lefèvre, ca. 1860 File:Théodore Henri Mansson - Street Scene with Gothic Building - Walters 371629.jpg, ''Street Scene with Gothic Building'', by Théodore Henri Mansson, 1845

Buildings

Charles Street – Old Main Building (1905–1909)

Henry Walters' original gallery was designed by architect

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and erected between 1904 and 1909, facing South Washington Place (at the northwest corner with West Centre Street) and attached by an overhead bridge/passageway across the back alley from his adjacent townhouse/mansion to the north on West Mount Vernon Place (facing the

to the northeast). Its exterior was inspired by the Renaissance-revival-style Hôtel Pourtalès in

and its interior was modeled after the 17th-century "Collegio dei Gesuiti" (now the Palazzo dell'Università) built by the Balbi family for the

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. The arts of the

and

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periods, French decorative arts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and manuscripts and rare books are now exhibited in this palazzo-style structure.

Centre Street Annex Building (1974)

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firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott, in the "Brutalist" poured-concrete style prevailing in the 1960s, (one of the few others in the region of this extremely modernistic style in the city – such as the recently razed

Morris A. Mechanic Theatre The Morris A. Mechanic Theatre was a playhouse at 1 South Charles Street that was part of the Charles Center of Baltimore, Maryland. The theatre was built by and named for owner Morris A. Mechanic who operated a number of theatres in the city ...

in downtown

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on the southwest corner of Charles and Baltimore Streets from 1967), this annex building (which has several horizontal lines paralleled with features in the 1909 structure) to the west along West Centre Street and rear of the original main gallery, extending to Park Avenue, opened in 1974. It was substantially altered in 1998–2001 by another firm of Kallmann McKinnell and Wood, Architects, to provide a four-story glass atrium, with a suspended staircase at the juncture between the older and newer buildings with a new entrance lobby along Centre Street. The new lobby, which also provides easier ground-level handicapped access along with enhanced security provisions for both collections and visitors is also providing a café, an enlarged museum and gift store and a reference library. The ancient,

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, and 19th-century

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an collections are housed in this building, with its large display walls and irregular corridors and galleries. Also here is the museum's famed art conservation laboratory, which is one of the oldest in the country.

Hackerman House (1850/1991)

This

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style townhouse/mansion, one of the most elaborate in the city, was designed by famed local architect John Rudolph Niernsee (1814–1885), and erected between 1848 and 1850 for Dr. John Hanson Thomas, was long regarded as the most "elegant" house along Mount Vernon Place or Washington Place. It sits on the southwest corner of the circle surrounding the

and was later owned by the families Jencks and Gladding (and the house has been known as the Thomas-Jencks-Gladding Mansion). Considered in its premiere landmark municipal location to be used for Baltimore City's Official Mayor's Residence (similar to other major American cities mayor's mansions such as Gracie Mansion in a river-front park on

's east side of

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, facing the

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), when it was briefly acquired by the city in the late 1950s and then being considered to be razed for an unfortunately poorly-conceived and planned northern expansion of the Gallery engendered local preservationists' protests before being finally re-sold to the Gladding family of a well-known public-spirited local

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auto dealership, who promised to restore and preserve the noted mansion. Among the original owning family of the Thomas's distinguished guests of the mid-19th century were the

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(eldest son of

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), the future

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(reigned 1901–1910); and General Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894), the then famous Hungarian freedom fighter, president of an early, brief Hungarian republic, veteran of the European Revolutions of 1847–1848 and the "Father of modern

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". Since the mid-1980s when, the Thomas-Jencks-Gladding Mansion was reacquired by the city under Mayor

William Donald Schaefer William Donald Schaefer (November 2, 1921 – April 18, 2011) was an American politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. As a Democrat, he was the 45th mayor of Baltimore from December 1 ...

(1921–2011), who served the city from 1971 to 1987, and future

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(1987–1995) from the Gladding family with a donation by the mayor's loyal friend along with being a developer, industrialist and philanthropist,

Willard Hackerman Willard Hackerman (October 6, 1918 – February 10, 2014) was an American businessman, long-time CEO of a major construction firm, and philanthropist based in Baltimore, Maryland. Biography Willard Hackerman was president and CEO of The Whiting-T ...

, and transferred to the purposes of "The Walters". Since additional renovations with the addition of a connecting gallery with domed skylight and corridor constructed through the top of the old rear carriage house/garage to the south end of the house, and across the east–west alley to the old 1909 Main Building's north side. Reopened in 1991, the newly renamed "Hackerman House" has been devoted to The Walters' recently expanded holdings of Asian art. As "Thomas-Jencks-Gladding House", the building was designated a

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in 1975.

Anti-Labor Hostility

Throughout 2021, director Julia Marciari-Alexander, advised by

union-busting Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or prevent the formation of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace. Union busting tactics can refer to both legal and illegal activities, and can range ...

law firm Shaw Rosenthal LLP, refused to meet with Walters employees, stalling the advance of a wall-to-wall unionization effort. In October 2021, when directed by the

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and Comptroller Bill Henry to meet with employees and allow a vote on unionization, Marciari-Alexander refused, claiming that meeting with her employees constitutes interference. It was later stated that if the unionization effort was successful, workers would be represented by AFSCME Council 67, which would also represent workers at Baltimore Museum of Art and Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Gallery

This is a list of selected works from the museum collection.

References

Additional sources

* ''The Walters Art Gallery, Guide to the Collections'', 1997, Scala Books, * * Gruelle, R. B., ''Collection of William Thompson Walters'' (Boston 1895) * Bushnell, S. W., ''Oriental Ceramic Art Collections of William Thompson Walters'' (New York 1899)

External links

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Walters Art Museum online collectionArchimedes Palimpsest Project Web Page
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