Unlike other galleries at The Art Institute of Chicago that tell the story of European art through a focus on individual artists and national schools, this sequence of spaces of the museum presents the contexts in which works of art would have been seen and used on their time.
The first rooms are devoted to art of the Catholic Church, where objects worked together with space to make heavenly glory tangible. Beyond, smaller rooms present the use of art in domestic settings – private interiors in which piety and the display of status still played an important role.
These galleries feature a creative dialogue between sculpture, painting, metalwork, and textiles to convey a sense of the densely layered presence of art in Medieval and Renaissance life.
The pieces of artwork that captured my attention are presented below:
Marco Serrato 
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