European Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 6 (Tuesday) — August 29 (Sunday) Exhibition space: main building, north, first floor.
Edouard Manet, Victorine Meurent, c.1862 Photograph©2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

From the department of European painting of one of the earliest and oldest art museums in America, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, founded in 1870, comes an exhibition of masterpieces of European painting spanning the 16th-20th centuries. The exhibition displays 80 works, beginning with old masters such as Velasquez and Rembrandt, then moving across the 19th century with the Barbizon school and Impressionism, culminating with 20th century artists such as Picasso and Matisse. A highlight of the exhibition will be the display of 11 masterpieces by the representative Impressionist painter, Monet.

• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I:
  The Round and Rectangular
• Kyoten 2010
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection II:
  Women Artists of Kyoto – bearing burdens / burdens born
• European Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection: Ota Kijiro and his Genealogy
• The Takashimaya Collection with the History of Modern Art
• The 95th Inten:
  Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute
• The 130th Anniversary of the Founding of Kyoto City University of Arts: The Formation of Kyoto Nihonga – The Master Painter’s Challenges
• The 42nd Nitten Kyoto Exhibition
• Shinran – Founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Sect of Buddhism