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March 10 through June 4, 2023In a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support “the sublimity of my ideas.”
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THE MORGAN ANNOUNCES EXTENDED VIEWING HOURS FOR ALICE: 150 YEARS OF WONDERLAND
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March 27 through December 9, 2018Rivers and Torrents highlights works from the collection of oil sketches given jointly to the Morgan and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 and 2016 by Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare.
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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO HOLD FIRST RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS BY DAN FLAVIN
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THE FIRST RETROSPECTIVE OF MATTHEW BARNEY’S DRAWINGS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM THIS SPRING
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MONIKA GRZYMALA TO CREATE LARGE-SCALE WORK AT THE MORGAN THIS SUMMER AS THE MUSEUM CONTINUES ITS ANNUAL SCULPTURE SERIES
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February 10 through November 8, 2026
In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting, Elements of Practical Perspective, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the sun’s light using oil paint. An artist, he explained, cannot look at the blazing body for longer than a moment, lest they be dazzled, and even if they could, “as there is no color in nature that is luminous by itself, the painter is very limited in the means he uses to copy the light of nature. So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.”
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Attributed to Willem Drost1633-1659ca. 1656I, 195ClassificationDepartment
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Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Sir Thomas More, painted in 1527, is one of the pinnacles of the artist’s career. Xavier F.
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