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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM EXPLORES THE MEDIEVAL WORLD’S FASCINATING APPROACH TO THE PASSAGE OF TIME IN A NEW EXHIBITION

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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Before the appearance of the clock in the West around the year 1300, medieval ideas about time were simultaneously simple and complex.

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GIOVANNI BELLINI’S FAMED PAINTING OF THE DEAD CHRIST FROM THE MUSEO DELLA CITTÀ IN RIMINI, ITALY, MAKES U.S. DEBUT AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

From January 13 through April 19, 2026, the Morgan Library & Museum will display the painting Pietà (also known as Dead Christ Supported by Angels) (ca. 1470) by Giovanni Bellini (1424/26–1516), bringing this early Renaissance masterpiece to the United States for the first time.

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The profitable arte of gardening: to which is added much necessarie matter, and a number of secrets, with the physick helps belonging to each hearbe ... To his is annexed two proper treatises, the one entituled, the meruailous gouernment; propertie, and benifite of bees ... And the other, The yerely coniectures meete for husbandmen. To these is likewise added a treatise of the arte of grafting and planting of trees.

Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.

London, Imprinted by E. Allde, 1593.

PML 37483

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Coronation of the Virgin

Anonymous, Swiss

17th century

AZ241

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Stained Glass

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Drawings and Prints

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Epistolae /

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Naples, Italy, ca. 1465-1470.

Accession number

MS M.1163

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Manuscript

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Standing Man Seen Three-Quarter-Length, Facing Left

Louis Boilly

1761-1845

1821-1822

1977.38

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Las epistolas de Seneca. Co[n] vna sum[m]a siquier introductio[n] de philosophia moral: en romançe.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

PML 79160

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
[Biblia latina].

PML 17067

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
The pilgrim's progress: from this world, to that which is to come: : delivered under the similtude of a dream. : Wherein is discover'd the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country. : In two parts, complete. / By John Bunyan.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.

London: : Printed for J. Clarke at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane, and J. Brotherton at the Bible next the Fleece-Tavern in Cornhill., 1728.

PML 8152

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A traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful ... : Herewith is comprised in the later chapitres, a full confutation of Doctour Poynettes boke entitled A defense for the marriage of priestes, by Thomas Martin.

Martin, Thomas, 1520 or 21-1592 or 3.

Londini : Roberti Caly, 1554.

PML 19034

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Book

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Printed Books

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