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“Cospetto! Che bella cosa!” My what a beautiful thing: Boucher’s Triumph of Venus in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

It is generally acknowledged that Boucher’s Triumph of Venus, painted in the summer of 1740 for Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, is the artist’s greatest mythological painting.

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Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan

One of the most original and influential photographers of his generation, Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is also among the most attuned to the deep historical life of images.

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THE ART AND POETRY OF NATURE—NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT'S INFLUENCE ON LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design is on view May 21 through August 29, 2010, and features approximately ninety highly influential texts and outstanding works of art.

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NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANIMALS AND THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Beginning March 2, The Morgan Library & Museum will explore the representation of animals—as symbols, muses, moral teachers, talking creatures, and beloved companions—in eighty works of art.

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THE MORGAN TO EXHIBIT THE MUSICAL SCORE AND PRODUCTION STORYBOARDS FOR THE GROUND-BREAKING OPERA, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Beginning on July 13, The Morgan Library & Museum will exhibit for the first time Glass's autograph score for Einstein on the Beach as well as Wilson's production storyboards totaling more than one hundred designs.

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The bookbinder's manual : containing a full description of leather and vellum binding; also, directions for gilding of paper & book-edges: and numerous valuable recipes for sprinkling, colouring, and marbling: together with a scale of bookbinders' charges; a list of all the book and vellum binders in London, &c. &c.

London : Cowie and Strange, 1829.

PML 128535.2

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Ode for Music, : as performed at the theatre in Oxford, on the second of July, 1751. Being the anniversary appointed by the late Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, for the commemoration of benefactors to the University. / By Tho. Warton ... ; Set to music by Dr. Hayes ...

Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790.

Oxford, : Printed for R. Clements and J. Barrett; W. Thurlbourne in Cambridge; and R. Dodsley ..., London, [1751]

PML 78650

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The great blessing of good rulers, depends upon God's giving His judgments & His righteousness to them : a sermon preached before His Excellency William Shirley...and the House of Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts bay...being the day for the electing His Majesty's council for said province...

Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784.

Boston : Draper, 1742.

PML 3529

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An apology for the true Christian divinity : being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers / Written in Latin and English by Robert Barclay, and since translated into High Dutch, Low Dutch, French, and Spanish, for the information of strangers.

Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.

Birmingham : Printed by J. Baskerville, 1765.

PML 4355

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The practice of Christianitie, Or An epitomie of seven treatises, / penned and published in the yeare 1633 [1603] by R.R. Contracted long since for private use and now published for the benefite of such, as either want leisure to reade or meanes to provide larger volumes.

Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.

London : Printed by B. Alsop for T. Man, 1623.

PML 152062

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