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This virtual tour will explore the museum's interactive website of cylinder seals from ancient Mesopotamia. These miniature masterpieces are among the smallest works ever produced by sculptors.

Moralized Bible, France, Paris, c. 1227–34, 37.5 x 26.2 cm, MS M.240, fols. 7v and 8r (The Morgan Library & Museum)

In conjunction with the exhibition Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan, artists, writers, and musicians will respond to works in the exhibition through short performances.

In the spring of 2019, Jayne Wrightsman bequeathed to the Morgan an exceptional collection of books bound for the highest echelons of 18th-century French society.

May 26, 2016

Join Laura Dassow Walls, author of the forthcoming Henry David Thoreau: A Life, for an illustrated presentation on the profound, inspiring complexity of Henry David Thoreau.

Young, handsome, and highborn, Claude III de Laubespine lived in luxury after marrying an heiress and obtaining the favor of King Charles IX. His brilliant career at court was cut short in 1570, when he died at the age of 25.

“I kind of draw like you are walking through the forest,” Condo explains. “You don’t really know where you are going.

Six months before he died in poverty and obscurity, architect and draftsman Jean‐Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826) donated one more than 800 drawings, one of the most singular and fascinating graphic oeuvres of his time, to the French Royal Library.