Many departments and people within the museum are working together to get ready for Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes. For instance, conservators and the curator are in constant collaboration to accomplish this goal. Between 600 and 1000, long before the Inca, the Wari forged a complex society widely regarded today as ancient Peru’s first empire.

We appreciate the support of museum members and donors in establishing endowments to support specific projects at the museum. We celebrated their generosity during an April 2012 reception in which the donors shared why their support of the museum was so important to their philanthropic activities.

A rare, Byzantine and Early Christan Art icon featuring the Virgin Mary and the Christ child will be on view beginning Tuesday, December 20. Acquired by the museum in June 2010 and having undergone an extensive conservation treatment since then, the Icon of the Mother of God and Infant Christ (Virgin Eleousa), will make its public debut in the Robert P. Bergman Memorial Gallery.

By Eileen Sullivan
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation

The Project

The museum was given a grant last year by the Samuel Kress Foundation to fund the conservation of Paolo Veronese’s 1575 The Annunciation.

By Eileen Sullivan Kress
Fellow in Paintings Conservation

By Kesha Williams
Digital Communications Manager