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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
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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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Allegory on the Glory of William III (Battle of Grave 26-10-1674)
LAIRESSE, GÉRARD DE
1674
Etching
Sheet: 28 x 19 1/2 ins. (71.2 x 49.3 cm); Image: 27 1/4 x 18 1/2 ins. (68.9 x 46.9 cm)
Purchase, with funds provided by the Ralph and Doris Piper Lamberson Memorial Endowment Fund, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, and Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Rose on the Half Shell III
FONSECA, HARRY
1981
Acrylic on heavy wove paper with glitter
30 3/8 x 22 ½ ins. (76.5 x 57.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Saüle I (Column I)
LONAS, JOSEPH HENRY
1963
Bronze
86 1/4 h. x 19 1/2 w. x 16 1/2 ins. d. (219.0 x 49.5 x 41.9 cm)
Gift of the artist and his wife
White Aspens and Hillside
PORTER, ELIOT
May 1975
Dye transfer print
Support: 27 1/8 x 31 1/8 ins. (68.8 x 79.0 cm); Image: 18 x 22 3/4 ins. (45.7 x 57.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Happy Days
MOSES, ANNA MARY ROBERTSON
1961
Oil on masonite
Sight: 15 1/2 x 23 1/2 ins. (39.3 x 59.7 cm)
Acquired with funds provided by The June G. Horsman Family Trust with additional funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Brushstrokes
LICHTENSTEIN, ROY
1967
Color screenprint on white wove paper
22 x 30 ins. (55.6 x 76.3 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Reclining figure of a man on his back
Circle of FALCONE, ANIELLO
Red chalk
Sight: 7 1/2 x 10 5/8 ins. (19.1 x 26.9 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Sioux Sisters, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD
FERRATO, DONNA
1995
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 30 x 24 ins. (76.3 x 60.8 cm); Image: 26 x 21 5/8 ins. (66.1 x 54.8 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005

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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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