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#Doorsday

Installation in progress.

#photography #doors #door #MorganLibrary #library #libraries #museum #Renoir #painting

A hallway inside the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Marble walls rise up to a groin-vaulted ceiling with elaborate ornamentation and Renaissance-themed imagery. An overhead lamp illuminates a stairway leading off to the right. In the middle of the photo is a doorway under a lunette with large text that reads “RENOIR DRAWINGS.” Through the doorway we can see a banner with an artwork reproduction hanging on a far wall: Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Portrait of a Girl (Elisabeth Maître),” featuring a brown-haired girl in a blue dress. The lower part of the banner is blocked from view by dark folding screens and a small red sign that says “INSTALLATION IN PROGRESS.” A rope barrier between two stanchions further discourages entry.

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We are looking straight up at the seven-panel window in the roof of the rotunda at the Morgan Library in New York City. As plain as the window glass is, the surroundings are elaborate. Four medallions representing Art, Science, Philosophy and Religion are surrounded by intricate floral designs and scenes. This is all done with tiny mosaic tiles.

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We are looking at a multi-story, floor to ceiling window with regular dividers. A brick building to the left, a white stone building to the right, and a courtyard with signs of spring in the center.

The Morgan Library - The Book of Marvels

"Several stories in the Book of Marvels reflects an interest in merchants, trade, and luxury goods. Such accounts often focus on the difficulties and dangers of acquiring precious materials such as gems or spices in faraway lands. A popular example relates to the origins of cinnamon, believed to come from the nests of the mythical cinnamologus birds of Arabia."

Published under #CCYBYSA https://flic.kr/p/2qManFy

#newyork #MorganLibrary #book #MiddleAges

A medieval book depicting how cinnamon was believed to be harvested by throwing rocks at mythical birds nest.

Morgan Library & Museum
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#library #museum #newyorkcity

Exploring the Medieval World Through Illuminated Manuscripts at the Morgan Library https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/exploring-the-medieval-world-through-illuminated-manuscripts-at-the-morgan-library/ #museums #MorganLibrary #BookofMarvels #medievalmanuscripts

Celebrate Belle da Costa Greene, the trailblazing librarian who shaped the Morgan Library. As its first director, she overcame racial barriers during the Gilded Age to pioneer education and culture.

Explore her extraordinary journey and impact at the Morgan Library’s centennial exhibition, running until May 4, 2025.

@goodnews

#BelleDaCostaGreene #MorganLibrary #GoodNews #EducationMatters #HistoryMakers
https://mymodernmet.com/belle-da-costa-greene-morgan-library/

The true story of a famed librarian and the secret she guarded closely

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5159998/the-true-story-of-a-famed-librarian-and-the-secret-she-guarded-closely

#MorganLibrary #Librarian #Race #BelleDaCostaGreene

@avirr I'd love to see these in person! The page from the Bible of St Louis is one of eight (the final quire) in the Morgan Library in NY; the rest is in Toledo cathedral... I just found a description with some of the Toledo pages here: https://docs.moleiro.com/en_Bible_Saint_Louis_III_11.pdf
#13thCentury #Toledo #bible #medieval #manuscript #MorganLibrary

The #Extraordinary #Story of #Black #Librarian #BelleDaCostaGreene

A new #exhibition at the #MorganLibrary explores the #legacy of its #inaugural #director, who amassed a trove of #rare #books and #prints while passing as a #White #woman in #segregated #America.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #NewYorkCity #History #RoleModels #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

https://hyperallergic.com/878327/the-extraordinary-story-of-black-librarian-belle-da-costa-greene-morgan-library/

Es gab vor gut einem Jahr eine Ausstellung zu #Enheduana und ihrem historischen Kontext in der #MorganLibrary in New York . Der Link führt zu vielen Ressourcen. Das Video zur Ausstellung ist schön & informativ. Man sieht ihre Texte in Keilschrift & Statuetten sumerischer Frauen. Das hat mir gut gefallen.
#womenshistorymonth #womenwriters #ReadingWomen #literature https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/she-who-wrote

Current #Wikidata :wikidata: project is cleaning up/expanding items on #IlluminatedManuscripts in American collections for WikiProject:Manuscripts. Today's big effort: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80191660 #CodexHuygens at the #MorganLibrary. Now it’s time for Thai food and reading more of @marthawells 's #SystemCollapse.

The Morgan Library recently acquired a rare, fragmentary copy of the Ars moriendi blockbook, printed in 1467–69. Incredibly, the Morgan already held the 9 leaves missing from this singular copy. Their acquisition reunites the two parts, thus forms the only extant complete copy #books #MorganLibrary

One for #LibrarianMastodon - did you know that Harney & Sons makes a Bella da Costa Greene-themed tea? It may have her boss in the pic on the tin, but here for this.

May need to pick up more next time I’m in NYC, recently re-discovered among my tea hoard and it’s so good.

#Tea #Librarians #Library #BelleDaCostaGreene #MorganLibrary #TeaNerd

Description of the tea - a blend of Assam and Keemun theoretically enjoyed by JP Morgan & Belle da Costa Greene at the Morgan Library

Mr Morgan’s Tea: pic of JP Morgan on a tea tin

“She Who Wrote” at the Morgan Library.

“She Who Wrote” presents a series of clay tablets containing the first known recorded use of the word “I” in human history, written by history’s first known author, Enheduanna—a poet, priestess, and, yes, woman

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/she-who-wrote-enheduanna-morgan-library-1234650999/ #MorganLibrary

#Bookshelves at the #MorganLibrary. I would not rest until I found “Carmen”. #bookshelf

Murder, She Wrote: Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Friday, 12/16/22, 12:30 PM #AgathaChristie #Archaeology #MorganLibrary
This online program will explore how writer Dame Agatha Christie weaved together her personal archaeological experiences, and travels in Mesopotamia, into thrilling mysteries, and will feature objects [from the Library's collection]. Free; limited availability; registration required. https://www.themorgan.org/programs/murder-she-wrote-agatha-christie-and-archaeology