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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
Workshop
Teen Metal Casting Camp
Teen Metal Casting Camp
Monday, August 4, 2025
9:00 AM
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On View

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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Self-portrait
CANNON, TOMMY WAYNE called T.C. CANNON
1970
Blue ink on paper
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins. (27.2 x 21.8 cm); Image: 4 1/8 x 3 3/4 ins. [irreg.] (10.3 x 9.4 cm)
Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment
Pel & Ploma
BRASSESCO, TANIA ||NORBERTO, LAZLO PASSI
2010
Durst Lambda print on Kodak Endura E mat paper
Sheet: 27 ½ x 53 ins. (70.0 x 134.6 cm); Image: 26 x 51 3/8 ins. (66.0 x 130.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Guerre Civile (Civil War)
MANET, EDOUARD
1871
Lithograph on chine collé, state II/II
Sheet: 18 ½ x 25 ¼ ins. (47.0 x 64.2 cm); Image: 15 ¾ x 20 ins. (40.0 x 50.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Studies for a youth from the left and Studies of arms of a figure playing a violin;  Offset of a right hand
DANDINI, OTTAVIANO
Red chalk
Sheet: 8 x 11 7/6 ins. (20.3 x 29.0 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Mother and Child – Sunlight
STEICHEN, EDWARD
1906
Photogravure
5 1/8 x 6 1/2 ins. (12.9 x 15.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Sign in a Rainstorm
RUSCHA, ED
2021
Direct gravure printed in black and blue
Sheet: 28 1/2 x 24 1/4 ins. (72.4 x 62.2 cm); Image: 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 ins. (59.0 x 48.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Portrait of John Carroll
BELLOWS, GEORGE WESLEY
1923
Lithograph
Sheet: 12 x 9 5/8 ins. (30.6 x 24.0 cm); Image: 11 ¼ x 8 5/8 ins. (28.3 x 22.0 cm)
Gift of Christian Vinyard
Two Studies of Men
CLONNEY, JAMES GOODWYN
Pencil
Sight: 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 ins. (18.5 x 24.2 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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