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Written in Stone: Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. 2500 B.C.–550 B.C.

View all five objects in an exhibition that explores the development of writing in Mesopotamia—the wedge-shaped system that we call cuneiform—that was in use for over three thousand years.

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Speculu[m] hu[m]ane vite. Speculu[m] conversionis peccatorum. Speculu[m] sacerdotu[m] cum hystoria udonis. Speculum ecclesie. sive Exposito misse. Speculum anime peccatricis. Tractatus de horis dicendis. Tractatus de casibus penitentialibus. Tractatus artis bene moriendi.

Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404-1470.

PML 196118

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Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Joseph Recounting his Dreams to his Brethren: Genesis 37: 5-10

Herman van Swanevelt

1603-1655

I, 270

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Figures on Clouds, Seen From Below

Italian School 17th cent.

IV, 39a

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints

Fra Paolino

1488-1547

ca. 1526

I, 29

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

A nievve herball; or, Historie of plantes : wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diners & sundry kindes ... and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande but of all others also of forrayne realmes commonly used in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens ... and now first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte ...

Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.

At London : by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.

PML 17063

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Renoir and the Nude

Director's Talk with Colin B. Bailey

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Rocks and Mountains: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection

July 19, 2016 through August 6, 2017

Rocks and Mountains is the fourth exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare.

THE ART AND POETRY OF NATURE—NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT'S INFLUENCE ON LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design is on view May 21 through August 29, 2010, and features approximately ninety highly influential texts and outstanding works of art.

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NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANIMALS AND THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Beginning March 2, The Morgan Library & Museum will explore the representation of animals—as symbols, muses, moral teachers, talking creatures, and beloved companions—in eighty works of art.

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