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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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Le Sainte Face (Veronica’s Veil)
MELLAN, CLAUDE
1649
Engraving
Sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 3/4 ins. (44.0 x 32.3 cm); Plate: 17 x 12 1/2 ins. (43.2 x 31.7 cm)
Purchase, Ralph and Doris Piper Lamberson Memorial Endowment Fund
A Man Operating Cigoli’s Drawing Apparatus
CARDI, LODOVICO called IL CIGOLI
1606 - 1613
Pen, brown ink, and brown wash over black chalk on white paper
5 3/4 x 7 3/4 ins. (14.4 x 19.7 cm)
Gift of Manfred Brockhaus
Lake George, New York
HERZOG, HERMAN
Pencil on paper
Sight: 3 7/8 x 6 1/8 ins. (9.9 x 15.6 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
Apotre Jean Journet, partant pour la Conquete de l’Harmonie
COURBET, GUSTAVE
c. 1850
Lithograph on chine appliqué
Sheet: 9 ¾ (24.9)x 6 13/16 (17.4) ; Image: 9 ½ (24.2) x 6 ¾ (17.1)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Don’t B Afraid Its Just The Negro’es Playing dem Damn Drums again!
SIMMONS, DANNY
1997
Oil and graphite on cotton canvas
40 x 29 7/8 ins. (101.6 x 75.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
TV Indians
ROMERO, CARA
2017
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 61 x 41 ins. (154.9 x 104.1 cm); Image: 55 x 36 ins. (139.7 x 91.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment with additional funds from Ann Marie Stock and David Brashear
Amongst the Rocks and Crags
EBERLE, EDWARD SAMUEL
1992
Porcelain, wheel thrown and altered, terra sigillata
12 15/16 x 7 1/8 x 6 9/16 ins. diam. (33.0 x 18.1 x 16.8 cm)
Purchase, Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Art Endowment Fund
Mexican Cripple’s Family
KRIESBERG, IRVING
1945
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 24 1/4 x 36 ins. (61.6 x 91.44 cm)
Anonymous Gift

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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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