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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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Holy Family with Young St. John the Baptist
Attributed to PREISSLER, JOHANN DANIEL after BARTHOLOMAEUS SPRANGER [1546 - before 1611]
Pen and brown ink over pencil; squared in pencil and pricked for transfer
6 3/16 x 5 ins. (15.7 x 12.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, Virginia
LINK, O. WINSTON
1957 (reprint 1987)
Silver gelatin print
Sheet: 16 x 19 7/8 ins. (40.7 x 55.5 cm); Image: 15 7/16 x 19 1/4 ins. (39.2 x 48.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Los Angeles, Pierre Koening, Case Study House #22
SHULMAN, JULIUS
1960 (printed 1990s)
Chromogenic print
Sheet: 20 x 16 ins (40.6 x 50.7 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
Two naked boys with armor
van LEYDEN, LUCAS
Engraving
Sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 1/16 ins. (8.2 x 10.3 cm)
Gift of Ralph Wark
St. Vincent Ferrer preaching
MURA, FRANCESCO DE
Pen and ink, and wash
Sight: 7 7/8 x 5 7/16 ins. (20.0 x 13.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Landscape with moon and stars
BOLSWERT, SCHELTE ADAMS after PETER PAUL RUBENS [1577 - 1640]
1635 - 1640
Engraving
Sheet: 12 11/16 x 17 3/4 ins. (32.2 x 45.1 cm); Framed: 24 3/4 x 30 7/8 ins. (62.3 x 78.2 cm)
Gift of Thomas E. Thorne
La Seine, environs de Rouen
BOUDIN, EUGÈNE
1895
Oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 22 ins. (40.3 x 55.8 cm); Framed: 25 1/4 x 31 ins. (64.5 x 78.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

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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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