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This year marks the 300th birthday of the printmaker, architect, and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), and in celebration, exhibitions were organized in Venice, London, Berlin, and elsewhere.

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Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities

June 18 through September 26, 2021

Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is internationally celebrated for bringing Indo-Persian manuscript-painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary art practice.

DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FASHION DESIGNER KASPER TO BE EXHIBITED AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM BEGINNING JANUARY 21

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs is on view through May 1, 2011.

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THE MORGAN PRESENTS THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF MARTIN PURYEAR’S DRAWINGS

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

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THREE LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES BY ELLSWORTH KELLY TO GO ON VIEW BEGINNING JUNE 19 AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Beginning June 19, The Morgan Library & Museum will place on view three of Mr. Kelly's sculptures—a bronze piece, one in mahogany, and the other in redwood—in the museum's multi-storied, glass-enclosed Gilbert Court.

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Instruments of Affection: Mozart's Violin in Concert with Sonnambula

Join us for a rare and extraordinary musical experience: a selection of Mozart’s beloved chamber works performed on the Costa violin, on loan from the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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The American reader : a selection of lessons for reading and speaking, wholly from American authors : embracing a great variety of entertaining subjects of history, biography, divinity, laws, natural and moral philosophy, and of other branches of useful and elegant learning : furnishing numerous specimens of American eloquence, from the Presidential chair, the head quarters of the military commander, the seat in Congress, the pulpit on various occasions, the bench of the judge, the bar, station of literary honor, the seat of the muses, and from the shade of private life : containing rules for the proper use of the pauses, for graceful and persuasive pronunciation, and for appropriate and impressive gesture, to improve the scholar in reading and speaking, while enriching the mind with religious, virtuous, and useful knowledge : with an appendix of definitions of the words in this book most difficult for youth to understand : designed for the use of schools / by Joseph Richardson.

Richardson, Joseph, 1778-1871.

Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, 1810.

PML 85613

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