In a broad overview of the conditions throughout western Europe under which painters and sculptors learned their craft, Children of Mercury: Education of Artists in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of art education in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Curated by Jeffrey Muller, Chittima Amornpichetkul, J. Duncan Berry, Mary Braun-Anderson, Gabriele Bleeke-Byrne, Anne Dawson, Evonne Levy, Victoria Potts, Patricia Lynn Price, Cynthia Roman, Laurie Rubin, and Laura Olmstead Tonelli