
Imagined Worlds: Landscape and Narrative in the Lowe Art Museum’s Old Masters’ Collection
October 3, 2025 – February 14, 2026
Ever since Renaissance artists developed the drawing technique of linear perspective, Western artists have conceived of paintings as illusory windows onto imagined worlds. The paintings from the Lowe’s collection of European Old Masters included in this exhibition show varied ways that artists used landscape as a visual strategy to strengthen narratives and deepen characterization in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.