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Feb. 10: Join Professor Cathleen McLoughlin '60 in Religious Studies Tour at the Morgan Library & Museum
February 10, 2012
Date: Friday, February 10
Time: 6-9 p.m.
Location: 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
Cost: $30 for tour and dinner
Registration Information: This event is sold out.
A complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. In 1924, in what constituted one of the most momentous cultural gifts in U.S. history, J.P. Morgan, Jr. fulfilled his father's dream of making the library and its treasures available to scholars and the public alike by transforming it into a public institution. Join the MMC Alumni Association and Professor Cathleen McLoughlin ’60 on a tour of the Morgan’s religious artifacts. Some of the pieces the tour will touch upon include the Gutenberg Bible (the Morgan has three copies); the Books of Hours, rightly known as the “bestseller” of the Middle Ages; the jeweled cover of the Lindau Gospels; the oil on panel of Virgin and Child with St. Catherine and St. John the Baptist (a sacred conversation); and the Stavelot Triptych.
Dinner will be served following the tour at Barbes Restaurant located at 19-21 East 36th Street, between 5th and Madison Avenues. Barbes Restaurant is named after the famous Paris neighborhood at the foot of the Sacre-Coeur, also known as the “little piece of North Africa.” For more information about the restaurant, please visit www.barbesrestaurantnyc.com.
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