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JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE
FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25
Released November 30, 2000

The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6.
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HOMELAND FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDS $1 MILLION GRANT TO CATALOGUE AND DIGITIZE MORGAN LIBRARY'S MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Released June 26, 2000

Charles E. Pierce, Jr., Director of the Morgan Library, announced today that the Library has received a $1-million grant from the Homeland Foundation, Inc. for a project under way with Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to catalogue and digitize the Library's entire collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts.
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MORGAN LIBRARY RECEIVES MAJOR REMBRANDT LANDSCAPE DRAWING AS GIFT
Released February 1, 2000

The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired, through the generosity of an anonymous friend, an extraordinary pen-and-ink landscape drawing by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669).
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