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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine: March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025 Buy Tickets

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Michelangelo:
The Genesis of the Sistine

Now through June 1.

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Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
Monday, July 28, 2025
9:00 AM
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Teen Metal Casting Camp
Teen Metal Casting Camp
Monday, August 4, 2025
9:00 AM
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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025
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William & Mary Collects III

February 7, 2025 — June 8, 2025
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — August 18, 2025
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Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
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Collection Highlights

The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.

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L’arrestation de Charlotte Corday (The Arrest of Charlotte Corday)
Attributed to GUÉRIN, JEAN-BAPTISTE PAULIN
1810 - 1830
Oil on canvas
Sight: 37 x 48 1/4 ins. (94 x 123 cm)
Gift of Patricia R. Van Zandt
La Neige, Pontoise (Le pont du chemin de fer, effet de neige)
LOISEAU, GUSTAVE
1914
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 31 7/8 ins. (60.0 x 81.0 cm); Framed: 29 1/4 x 37 1/4 ins. (74.2 x 94.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Strawberry and Deadly Nightshade
UNKNOWN
c. 1870
Watercolor
7 5/8 x 6 ins. (19.4 x 15.24 cm)
Gift of Graham and Gale Hood
Margot in a Floppy Bonnet (No. 3)
CASSATT, MARY
c. 1903 - 1904
Pencil on paper
Sheet: 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 ins. (28.9 x 20.0 cm); Image: 8 3/4 x 6 1/8 ins. (22.2 x 15.6 cm)
Purchase, Joseph & Margaret Muscarelle Art Endowment Fund
El Hotel Miramar
SÁNCHEZ, EMILIO
1981
Lithograph
Sheet: 22 7/8 x 35 ins. (58.2 x 88.8 cm); Image: 22 1/8 x 33 1/2 ins. (56 x 85.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Untitled
DREXLER, LYNNE
1991
Color pencil on wove paper
12 x 9 ins. (30.6 x 22.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Study of the Battle of the Greeks and Amazons from an antique sarcophagus
DAVID, JACQUES LOUIS
c. 1775 - 1780
Pencil, pen, and wash
Sight: 4 15/16 x 7 15/16 ins. (12.5 x 20.2 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Three men by a tree
BUYTEWECH, WILLIAM
Black chalk on blue paper
6 1/16 x 5 5/16 ins. (15.5 x 13.5 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation

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UTAGAWA TOKOKUNI, Untitled Kabuki scene, c. 1815, Woodblock print, Sheet: 15 3/8 x 31 ins. (39.0 x 78.7 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sullivan

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