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Masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Rogier van der Weyden, Hendrik Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Thomas Gainsborough, J.M.W. Turner, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh are among the treasures to be found in the Museum's recently reinstalled Galleries of European Art. Portraits and religious paintings such as Jan van Eyck's Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1428-30), Botticelli's Stories of Saint Mary Magdalene (c. 1484-91), Joos van Cleve's commanding image of King Francis I (c. 1525), reflect the spirit of the Renaissance. New approaches to historical and mythological subjects, such as Ruben's Prometheus Bound (begun c. 1611-12, completed by 1618), and the development of naturalistic landscapes and still lifes reflect the creative innovations developed in Europe between 1500 and 1850. The Galleries of 19th-Century Art are internationally renowned for great masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting: Cézanne's Large Bathers (1906), Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888 or 1889), Renoir's Great Bathers (1884-7), and Monet's Poplars (1891), along with many others.
