The Morgan Library - An American Masterpiece (Art Ebook).pdf

Pdf / English / 2000 / 174 pages / 38.8 MB

The Morgan Library, once the private domain of the financier-collector Pierpont Pierpont Morgan's study Morgan (1837-1913), is now a public research library, museum, architectural landmark, and historic site. The collections are vast and eclectic, representing the combined and evolving tastes of Pierpont Morgan, his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., four Library directors, and a succession of other curators and collectors down to the present day.
Chronologically, the collections extend from the earliest recorded civilizations of
ancient Mesopotamia to the modern era. They are organized into the following categories: paintings and art objects, ancient Near Eastern seals and tablets, drawings and prints, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, literary and historical manuscripts, music manuscripts and books, and bindings and printed books, including children's books. Accordingly, we have followed the same structure in the organization of the present volume. Cutting across these categories, however, is an almost limitless array of different areas of inquiry and study—art, literature, science, mathematics, history, philosophy, religion, law, education, theater, opera, linguistics, music, astrology, paleography, navigation, medicine, witchcraft, and gardening. And this list is far from complete.