Duke Riley, No. 382 of the Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum (2023)

by Annaliese Terlesky ’23.5, Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern In the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s recent exhibition, Tossed: Art From Discarded, Found, and Repurposed Materials (May 26–December 10, 2023), Duke Riley was one of many featured artists who have

Piranesi and the Greatness of Rome: An Ancient Cinerary Urn Restored and Augmented

By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture A Quixotic Personality Born in Venice in 1720, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an archaeologist, architect, and artist active in the second half of the

The Friends’ Most Recent Gift: A Gothic Coffret with Woodcut of Saint Roch

At the museum’s first in-person Purchase Party since 2019, the Friends voted to support the acquisition of a rare Gothic coffret dedicated to Saint Roch and adorned with a woodcut print depicting the saint. Coffrets were boxes made to carry

Shahzia Sikander’s The Perennial Gaze Takes Pride of Place in the Axinn Winter Garden

In 2019, the Committee on Art in Public Places, at the behest of Cynthia Packert, Christian A. Johnson Professor of History of Art, enthusiastically pursued the acquisition of The Perennial Gaze by renowned contemporary artist Shahzia Sikander. This stunning mosaic,

Label Talk: Calligraphic tile and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s sketch for The Whirling Dervish

There are many ways to interpret a work of art. The museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this pairing of a lustreware tile created by an Ilkhanid