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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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.MA 23840.949Department
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Prints
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Italian School18th centuryca. 17591982.75:339ClassificationDepartment
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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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The Library is by far the largest and grandest of the rooms in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.
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November 6, 2009, through March 14, 2010This exhibition explores the life, work, and legacy of Jane Austen (1775–1817), regarded as one of the greatest English novelists.
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Attributed to Stella, Jacques,1596-1657ca. 1620-16401961.25ClassificationDepartment
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Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485–1528), Letter to François I, describing his voyage along the east coast of North America in 1524 MA 776.
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Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.London, Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls church-Yard, 1647.PML 5835ClassificationDepartment
