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Tablet for Chimney Piece: Apollo with Virgil and Homer at left, Tasso and Milton at Right

Office of Adam, Robert

1728-1792

1958.23:4

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF ILLUMINATED ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HANDWRITTEN QUR’ANS TO BE SHOWN AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Morgan Library & Museum is internationally acclaimed for its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, but it may come as a surprise that it also possesses a number of important Islamic manuscripts dating from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century.

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Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan

Browse all the works in the exhibition and see additional manuscripts that are only available online.

Online Exhibitions

Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings

October 21, 2022 through February 5, 2023

One of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting. This exhibition celebrates the gift from Baselitz to the Morgan of fifty drawings covering the span of his entire career.

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Monday, April 18, 2022

The Morgan Library & Museum presents PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs, opening June 17 and running through October 2, 2022.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS GEORG BASELITZ: SIX DECADES OF DRAWING

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Friday, October 21, 2022

One of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting.

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THE MORGAN CELEBRATES THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN IN A NEW EXHIBITION

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Thursday, September 6, 2018

A classic of world literature, a masterpiece of horror, and a forerunner of science fiction, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of a new exhibition at the Morgan.

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Siri Hustvedt: Reflections on Austen

Siri Hustvedt is internationally recognized as one of the finest contemporary American novelists. Her writing elegantly combines emotion and intellect, passion and wit.