Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Dane County, United States | Museum

Welcome to Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, WI, in the Untied States. Our mission at Chazen Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit works of art and present related educational programs in support of the teaching, research, and public service mission of the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.
Chazen Museum of Art does this because the visual arts enrich individual human experience and because knowledge of art is essential to understanding diverse cultures, past and present.
Over half of the 75 paintings at Chazen Museum of Art in the 1600 - 1800 European group are Netherlandish. Included are works that are both important and rare. Most remarkable of the Dutch paintings perhaps is Franz Post's The Village of Olinda, a rare view of Brazil in the 17th century. Included are the tavern scenes by Cornelis Bega and Gerrit Lundens, a religious scene by Frans Francken II and two monumental landscapes after Salvator Rosa by Jacob de Heusch.
The collection also includes excellent examples of Italian and Spanish baroque painting.
Over the years, the Chazen Museum of Art has acquired some objects that were originally produced as architectural decoration. These include Roman floor mosaics.
Coins, because of their abundance and their intimate connections to the ruling elite of the ancient Greco-Roman world, offer a unique insight not only into the historical events with which they are bound up but also into the social history.