Bray Gallery

This beautiful gallery showcases 15th-18th century Italian, French, Flemish, and Spanish decorative arts, including furniture, ceramics and sculptures. The core of this special collection, donated to the Flint Institute of Arts by Flint collector and philanthropist Viola E. Bray, is a magnificent set of 17th century French tapestries designed by Simon Vonet (French, 1590-1649) made in the Gobelin tapestry factories of de la Planche and de Comans, a rare painting of an angel on a shaped panel by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) originally part of the altarpiece for the church of St. Walburge in Antwerp, an extremely fine majolica wine cistern by a terra-cotta by Ovazio Fontana (d. 1571), and a white glazed terra-cotta figure of an angel by Giovanni della Robbia (1469-1529).