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Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso

June 12 through September 7, 2015

This exhibition presents some of the Morgan’s greatest portrait drawings from a collection of works on paper that is internationally recognized for its depth and quality.

Prayer Book (MS M.1218)

Prayer Book, in German, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) and Hieronymus Oertel (1543–1614), Germany, Nuremberg, 1507–13 and ca. 1580–1600, MS M.1218

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Celebrating 100 Years at the Morgan Library & Museum

The year 2024 marks one hundred years of the Morgan Library & Museum as a public institution.

Al Taylor's drawings on pages of the book "Florentine Art Treasures" by Rosa Maria Letts (London: Roydon, 1970)

In this unusual object, Taylor drew over text and images in a book on Florentine Renaissance painting.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE PHILIP GLASS OPERATIC MASTERPIECE EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many collaborations between these two giants of the musical and theatrical stage.

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