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October 18, 2004 through January 8, 2006Comprising fifty-eight examples in manuscript or printed editions, Painted Prayers: Medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours from the Morgan Library examined the tremendous popularity of Books of Hours through an exploration of their customary prayers and the beautiful pictures that traditionally accompany these texts.
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January 26 through April 29, 2018Drawing upon the rich holdings of the Morgan’s collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, Now and Forever explores how people told time in the Middle Ages and what they thought about it.
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January 25 though April 20, 2008The show focuses on artists who worked on the frescoes, paintings, tapestries, and other decorative work that embellished the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, best known as the home of the Medici dukes.
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May 30 through September 14, 2025“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.” —Julia Margaret Cameron
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September 8, 2017 through January 7, 2018Treasure bindings—book covers encrusted with gold, silver, and gemstones—were a luxury in the Middle Ages.
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December 16, 2025 through March 15, 2026
This exhibition explores stories of (mis)identification in drawings by some of nineteenth-century France’s most renowned artists and their followers, including Théodore Chassériau, Charles Damour, Eugène Delacroix, Joseph Ducreux, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Léon Louis Antoine Riesener, examining portraiture’s powers and limitations in capturing histories, personalities, and identities.
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May 13, 2025 through February 8, 2026By the early nineteenth century, artists throughout Europe had grown increasingly interested in depicting the weather.
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September 29, 2017 through January 7, 2018This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world’s finest private collections containing over 400 sheets.
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July 15 through October 1, 2006To celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669), The Morgan Library & Museum presented highlights from its exceptional collection of Rembrandt etchings.
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February 19 through May 30, 2016This exhibition explores the history of the medium as a lucid, literate—but not always literal—tool of persuasion.
