Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008, author.Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1973 March 20-April 23.MA 5758.1Department
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.Keswick, England, circa 1802 August 12.MA 1848.47Department
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Prints
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Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, & Andreae Asulani soceri, Mense Februario MDXIII [1513]PML 1124ClassificationDepartment
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January 31 through September 13, 2020Some sixty of Lequeu’s several hundred drawings will be on view in Jean‐Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect, the first museum retrospective to bring significant public and scholarly attention to one of the most imaginative architects of the Enlightenment.
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February 10 through November 8, 2026
In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting, Elements of Practical Perspective, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the sun’s light using oil paint. An artist, he explained, cannot look at the blazing body for longer than a moment, lest they be dazzled, and even if they could, “as there is no color in nature that is luminous by itself, the painter is very limited in the means he uses to copy the light of nature. So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.”
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May 13 through September 14, 2025Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments.
