Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art
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Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art is an art gallery and museum in the City of Chicago in Illinois. It is the only museum in Chicago that focuses on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art with pieces in the collection ranging in date from 1150 to 1750. It is located in Chicago's premier Catholic institution of higher learning, Loyola University Chicago at its water tower campus in downtown, Chicago.
Established in 1969 by Father Donald Rowe, SJ, a Jesuit priest, the collection began with a single painting called The Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini. Over the course of several generations, the Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art grew. The art gallery and museum is named after British humanist and Jesuit theologian Father Martin D'Arcy, SJ. He was responsible for the famous art collection of Campion Hall at Oxford University in England. It recently moved from Loyola's Rogers Park campus to its new facility in the Lewis towers building on the Water Tower Campus in Downtown Chicago.
