Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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Pierre Joseph Redouté1759-18401802-18161986.66ClassificationDepartment
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Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.[1798 July 15].MA 157.100Department
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Merbecke, John, approximately 1510-approximately 1585.[London] : Imprinted at London by Henry Denham, and Richarde VVatkins, 1574.PML 17618ClassificationDepartment
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September 14, 2001, through January 13, 2002The brilliant and celebrated writer, dramatist, aesthete, wit, and self-proclaimed "lord of language" was the focus of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts, originally organized by the British Library. Wilde's (1854–1900) rise to success as a literary and social figure was meteoric. His decline to notoriety and disgrace was equally dramatic. Twelve years after publishing his first work of fiction, in 1888, he was dead at the age of forty-six, buried in a pauper's grave on the outskirts of Paris.
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In Morgan's day, visitors to the library passed through a pair of monumental bronze doors into a rotunda replete with opulent detail: variegated marble columns, an ornately patterned floor, and fine mosaic panels that line the curved walls. The ceiling paintings, by American artist H. Siddons Mowbray (1858–1928), depict three of the major literary epochs represented in Pierpont Morgan's collections—the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
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June 3 through September 18, 2016Held by a private collection, this magnificent painting will be shown in the United States for the very first time at the Morgan.
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