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Can't. Get. Enough. of these architectural fantasies created by Enlightenment architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu! Learn more about the reclusive architect: https://t.co/RY6nSFkU8E
A very Happy Lunar New Year to you! Here's to the Year of the #Rat! https://t.co/lGRYbsM2VS
Curious about the star of our soon-to-close exhibition "John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal"? Read about Lady Sybil on the Morgan Blog: https://t.co/k9yBup3rHI
Nothing to see here, just a totally normal choir of geese (and a fox) for today’s #FunFindFriday. 🦊🐥
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Gradual (“Geese Book”), MS M.905 (vol. I, fol. 186r), Nuremberg, Germany, 1507.
Guercino’s early patron and protector, Padre Antonio Mirandola, asked the artist to create a set of drawings for the instruction of future painters. This is one of 22 sheets from that requested set of drawing models. https://t.co/inyID6RFeU
Artists and writers flocked to Mary Hunter. She owned works by Claude Monet as well as several of John Singer Sargent’s Venetian watercolors. This portrait by Sargent has an experimental quality: Hunter’s features emerge from an atmospheric background. https://t.co/tG5ipO5E4i
During his Roman sojourn (1600-1608), #PeterPaulRubens emulated Italian art; he also bought Italian drawings that he retouched. Do you think this is a retouch? In his inscription Rubens identified the subject as the 15th century Florentine statesman and patron Niccolò da Uzzano.
You might consider our current exhibitions on Verdi and Sendak to have little in common, save for a shared connection to opera. But in fact, there is much linking these two exhibitions. Give our latest blog post, Comparing Curtains, a read to learn more.
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“I have an unshakable faith in the people I steal from.” —Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak, "Design for show curtain ('The Love for Three Oranges')," 1981. // Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, "Scene of Contemporary Life: The Chaperoned Visit," ca. 1791.
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..." LAST CHANCE to see "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth," closing Sunday. We're open today until 9 PM and Sunday 11 AM to 6 PM. https://t.co/GCFhi9m0Qk