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THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE UNIQUE ROLE OF DRAWING IN PORTRAITURE IN A NEW EXHIBITION OPENING JUNE 12

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Monday, May 4, 2015

In a new exhibition titled Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso, opening June 12, the Morgan Library & Museum takes visitors on a fascinating exploration of the genre.

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Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordeans

Drawings played a central role in the artistic practice of the three giants of the Flemish Baroque: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), and Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678).

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THE MORGAN JOINS THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT TO OFFER UNPARALLELED VIEWS OF ITS FAMED McKIM BUILDING

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The collaboration allows for the first virtual tour of the museum's landmark building and its renowned contents.

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Cardinal Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini Presents Eleanor of Portugal to Emperor Frederick III

Raphael

1483-1520

1996.9

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Beared Man, Seated on the Ground, Gesturing to the Right

Girolamo Muziano

1532-1592

ca. 1578-1584

1979.6

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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The Polite academy : or School of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses ; containing, I. The beauty and advantages of a genteel behaviour and agreeable complaisance. II. Some rules and observations for moral behaviour in young ladies, very necessary to be inculcated while at the boarding-school, in order to be practised when they come from it. III. Directions for good manners, agreeable behaviour, and polite address, on the most common occasions in life. IV. Some directions for an easy genteel carriage in walking, saluting, making a courtesy, bow, and dancing the minuet. V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing by Mr. Locke and the Chevalier De Ramsay; with a few very necessary instructions, by an eminent master ; illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved.

London : Printed for R. Baldwin, in Paster-noster-Row ; and B.C. Collins, in Salisbury, 1786.

PML 88261

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Printed Books

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[Opera].

Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.

PML 26736

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
A form, or order of thanksgiving and prayer : to be used in London, and ten miles round it, on Sunday the 15th of this instant January, and throughout England on Sunday the 29th of the same month, by all parsons, vicars, and curates, in their respective parish churches, and chapels, in behalf of the King, the Queen, and the royal family, upon occasion of the Queen's being with child. By His Majestie's special command.

London : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, MDCLXXXVII [1687].

PML 17615.1

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Printed Books

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Le trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce // Con priuilegii. // [Printer's device] //.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.

In Venetia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratel., 1555.

PML 46038

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books
Comedia del diuino poeta Danthe Alighieri : con la dotta & leggiadra spositione di Christophoro Landino, con somma diligentia & accuratissimo studio nuouamente corretta, & emendata, da infiniti errori purgata, ac etiandio di vtilissime postille ornata : a

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

In Vinegia : Ad instantia di M. Gioanni Giolitto da Trino : Per M. Bernardino Stagnino, 1536.

PML 59345

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books