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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
Dot
COLE, WILLIE
2012
Intaglio and relief
Sheet: 63 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins. (162.6 x 58.4 cm); Framed: 67 9/16 x 26 9/16 ins. (171.8 x 67.6 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Reclining figure
KATZ, ALEX
1987
Color aquatint
Sheet: 35 1/2 x 41 3/4 ins. (90.1 x 106.0 cm); Framed: 40 7/8 x 46 1/2 ins. (103.4 x 118.2 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Dragonfly Rises to the Dance
SMITH, JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE
2003
Charcoal and pencil
24 1/4 x 20 ins. (61.5 x 51.1 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisitions Fund, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, and Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Oil Boom
ROMERO, CARA
2015
Archival pigment print on Legacy Platine paper
55 x 55 ins. (139.7 x 139.7 cm); Framed: 56 1/2 x 56 ins. (143.0 x 142.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
The Family
OLUGEBEFOLA, ADEMOLA
1971
Color lithograph
27 1/4 x 20 1/4 ins. (69.2 x 50.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Evening Scene near Taos, New Mexico
DE COCK, LILIANE
1970
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14 1/4 x 18 1/2 ins. (35.9 x 46.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Bust of Joseph L. Muscarelle (1903 – 1989)
LAVATELLI, CARLA
1970
Bronze on marble base
22 1/4 h. x 19 1/4 w. x 10 1/4 ins. d. (56.5 x 48.9 x 26.0 cm)Base: 4 1/16 h. x 15 l. x 11 3/8 ins. d. (10.2 x 38.1 x 29.0 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Joseph L. Muscarelle

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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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