While the Gardner Museum’s permanent collection is unchanging, our understanding of individual objects continues to evolve. This exhibition brings together works by Giotto, Giuliano da Rimini, and Fra Angelico — three of the Gardner’s most important early Italian paintings — for a new look at how they were understood by their original audiences and how we might make sense of them today. These masterpieces are considered from a variety of perspectives, including that of Renaissance artists and patrons as well as contemporary artists and collectors. Consideration is also given to how paintings possess their own history as physical, devotional, and aesthetic objects whose meanings can be revealed or obscured by art historians and conservators.