Capturing the Senses: Beauty and Horror in Early Modern Art
On view through December 20, 2025
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
marquette.edu/haggerty
This focused exhibition draws directly from the Haggerty Museum’s extensive holdings of Early Modern art to investigate how artists’ creations inspire delight and terror, often simultaneously. Featuring artworks made in Europe and the Americas between the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, the exhibition takes a close look at images that join aesthetic pleasure to terrifying subject matter. Works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Ferdinand Bol, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Francesco Solimena, take up such complex and unsettling issues as the end times, human sacrifice, the decay of empire, and the burden of knowing one’s own fate.
Find out more here: https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty…/capturing-the-senses
[Image: Anonymous, possibly British, Richard III visited by the Ghosts of his Victims.]
