Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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Sandham, Elizabeth.London : Printed for J. Harris ..., 1804.PML 82401ClassificationDepartment
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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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Browse and read information about sixty-four images of works by thirty-two different artists.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Paris : Aux éditions du Fuseau chargé de laine, 1931.PML 146310ClassificationDepartment
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CreatedItaly, ca. 490-499.Display Dateca. 490-499.Accession numberMS M.462ClassificationDepartment
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Sikota, Győző.Budapest : Műszaki Könyvkiadó, 1976.PML 251224ClassificationDepartment
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