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Story Archive

  • Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

    Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

    The Museum recently acquired a Crucifixion by the fourteenth-century Florentine painter Jacopo del Casentino and a Virgin and Child, dated around 1500, by the Northern painter known as the Master of the Magdalen Legend. The paintings once belonged to Allan...
  • Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Although most recognized for his celebrated paintings—including The Scream (1893)—Edvard Munch was among the most innovative printmakers of the modern era. His mastery of a broad variety of print media paralleled his rapid development as a painter in the last...
  • Antioch mosaic restoration project
    Roman Mosaic pavement: Earth, mid 2nd century A.D. Stone h. 140.0 cm., w. 140.0 cm. (55 1/8 x 55 1/8 in.) Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University y1965-207

    Antioch mosaic restoration project

    Princeton's expeditions of the 1930s at the ancient city Antioch-on-the-Orontes, located near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey, unearthed archaeological treasures of one of the most important cultural and political centers of the Roman Empire.
  • Pearlman Collection Embarks on International Tour

    Pearlman Collection Embarks on International Tour

    The Impressionist and early modern works from the Pearlman Collection that are usually on view in the galleries of 19th- and early 20th-century art are currently traveling in a five-venue international tour entitled Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European...
  • Portraits of a President: A Video Feature

    Portraits of a President: A Video Feature

    In this video, Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, explains the unique history of a pair of George Washington portraits and the connections they have to both Princeton and American history.
  • Director's Letter Winter 2014

    Director's Letter Winter 2014

    Few institutions in the United States are more connected with the history and legacy of the Monuments Men than the Princeton University Art Museum. Two of my predecessors as director served with distinction as Monuments Men.
  • The Sky Is the Limit: Princeton's Happening

    The Sky Is the Limit: Princeton's Happening

    Breaking through the limits of a replay of the original, Hendricks’s The Sky Is the Limit provided a unique opportunity for the Princeton community to be incorporated into the tradition of New Jersey’s avant-garde.
  • New on View: Rauschenberg Redux

    New on View: Rauschenberg Redux

    The Art Museum is currently hosting its second set of loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, giving students, faculty, and visitors the chance to learn more about the work of this groundbreaking artist, one of the most important of the...
  • Exhibition as Classroom

    Exhibition as Classroom

    This fall, students in seminars from the departments of Art and Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English, Spanish, and Visual Arts visited the Art Museum to engage with the exhibition The Itinerant Languages of Photography.