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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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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
Portrait Study
WATSON-SCHÜTZE, EVA
1905
Photogravure printed on brown paper
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 ins. (29.8 x 20.7 cm); Image: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. (21.2 x 16.5 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Untitled (Gaver)
WALKER, TODD
1978
Photolithograph
Sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 ins. (23.1 x 25.5 cm); Image: 5 9/16 x 8 5/8 ins. (14.1 x 21.2 cm
Gift of Melanie Walker on behalf of the Estate of Todd Walker (1917-1998)
Saints Peter Martyr, Francis, and Mary Magdalen
UNKNOWN after ANDREA DEL SARTO [1486 - 1530]
Late- 16th Century
Black and red chalk
Sight: 14 11/16 x 10 11/16 ins. (37.2 x 27.1 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
KATZEN, LILA PELL
1981
Textured brass
One section: 14 1/4 h. x 16 1/4 l. x 10 1/2 ins. d. (36.2 x 41.3 x 26.7 cm)Other section: 16 1/4 h. x 14 7/8 w. x 10 1/2 ins. d. (41.3 x 37.8 x 26.7 cm)
Gift of Mr. Joel S. Berman
Untitled
NEVELSON, LOUISE
1968
Bronze
4 h. x 2 w. x 7/8 ins. d. (10.2 x 5.1 x 2.2 cm)Base: 2 h. x 2 3/4 w. x 2 ins. d. (5.1 x 6.9 x 5.1 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Gertrude Perrin
Ruin of the Old Colonial Church at Jamestown Is
SULLY, ROBERT MATHEW
9/1854
Watercolor
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 15/16 ins. (15.6 x 22.8 cm)
Gift of Miss Julia Sully
Female figure on bed
HENRI, ROBERT
Pencil
Sight: 7 7/8 x 10 1/2 ins. (20.0 x 26.7 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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