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Power and Grace: Ecumenical Rubens

David Freedberg

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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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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.

EIGHTY OUTSTANDING NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM THE LOUVRE TO GO ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S. AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

This fall The Morgan Library & Museum will host an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.

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THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE EUCHARIST IN THE RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC LIFE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IS EXPLORED IN A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art, on view May 17–September 15, 2013, explores how artists of the period depicted the celebration of the sacrament and its powerful hold on society in more than sixty-five exquisitely illuminated manuscripts drawn from the Morgan's renowned collections.

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Gospel Book (MS M.728)

Gospel Book Reims, France, ca. 860, MS M.728

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Collections Spotlight, Spring 2026

January 13 through May 3, 2026

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and Renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.