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 carryRead More Th……Continue Reading The Friends’ Most Recent Gift: A Gothic Coffret with Woodcut of Saint Roch

Wired Up

This summer, shortly following Reunion weekend, we received a note from an anonymous Middlebury alum with a brief account of personal musings they had shared with friends detailing their impressions of Fred Eerdekens’ illuminated copper wire installati……Continue Reading Wired Up

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 artisan in the……Continue Reading Label Talk: Calligraphic tile and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s sketch for The Whirling Dervish

Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive

By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture In the fall of 1996, the Middlebury College Museum of Art received a gift from John Paul Wallach, Middlebury alumnus from the class of 1964, and his w……Continue Reading Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive