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Title: Architectural model, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009
Description: Architectural model, Morgan Library atrium, 2009. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. The exterior marble wall of the original McKim, Mead & White library building appears on the left. The vitrine contains a scale model of Charles McKim's landmarked Italian Renaissance-inspired building.
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Local Identifier: liebermanb

Title: Cafe, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009
Description: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 2009. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. The Morgan's visitor cafe lies in the rear of the glass-enclosed atrium.
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Local Identifier: liebermanf

Title: Corridor, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Corridor, Morgan Library, 2009. 29 East 36th Street. Following J.P. Morgan's death his home on the corner of Madison Avenue and E. 36th Street was razed and an addition to his library built on the site. Though the two buildings appeared to be separate they connected through a back corridor. Built: 1928; Architect: Benjamin W. Morris. Morris's Italian Renaissance-inspired building complements the classicism of the Morgan Library's original 1906 building. This corridor is a showcase of Neo-Italian Renaissance design. The floors are inlaid with marble
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Local Identifier: liebermano

Title: Elevator, Morgan Library atrium, 2009
Description: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. The glass elevator, visible on the right, connects the lobby with a gallery on the second floor and public event spaces on the lower level.
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Local Identifier: liebermanc

Title: Entrance to the McKim, Mead & White building, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009
Description: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 2009. View of the visitor entrance to the original McKim, Mead & White library building from the glass-enclosed central courtyard. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. Pictured is the visitor entrance to the original McKim, Mead & White building. Rather than using the library's formal entrance which faces onto E. 36th Street, museum visitors walk through a secondary entrance which connects Renzo Piano's central atrium to an area at the rear of Charles McKim's original 1906 Italian Renaissance-inspired library building.
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Local Identifier: liebermang

Title: Entrance, Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009
Description: Entrance to the Morgan Library from Madison Avenue, 2009. Madison Avenue entrance to the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The entrance was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space.
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Local Identifier: liebermanl

Title: Facade, Renzo Piano addition to the Morgan Library, 2009
Description: View from Madison Avenue of architect Renzo Piano's entrance to the Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue. Madison Avenue entrance to the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The entrance was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space.
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Local Identifier: liebermank

Title: Fireplace, Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 33 East 36th Street, 2009. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. This room originally served as Belle Greene's study. Greene was the librarian in charge of J. Pierpont Morgan's library from 1905 until 1924 and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924 until 1948.
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Local Identifier: liebermani

Title: General view, Morgan Library atrium, 2009
Description: General view, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. This general view faces towards the Madison Avenue entrance. The structure of the glass elevator and attendant platforms is clearly delineated. The glass-paneled ceiling is partially visible.
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Local Identifier: liebermand

Title: Interior with view of Phelps Stokes house, Morgan Library atrium, 2009
Description: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. To the left is visible the exterior wall of the Phelps Stokes House, which was home to J.P. Morgan, Jr. from 1904 until his death in 1943. Following J.P. Morgan, Jr.'s death his estate sold the property to the United Lutheran Church in America. In 1988 the church sold the building to the Pierpont Morgan Library and it was repurposed as a museum building.
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Local Identifier: liebermane

Title: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 2009
Description: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009. Madison Avenue entrance to the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The entrance was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space. Renzo Piano's design brings together three existing buildings: 1.) The original library building built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White; 2.) The Annex added 1928 on the site of J.P. Morgan's former residence ; Architect: Benjamin W. Morris; 3.) The J. P. Morgan, Jr. House, built in 1852 and later owned by the Lutheran Church in America. It was acquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1988.
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Local Identifier: liebermanu

Title: J.P. Morgan's Library, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: J.P. Morgan's library. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The library opens off of the east side of the rotunda. This photograph shows the room's east wall, which is lined with wooden bookshelves holding volumes from Morgan's collection. The ceiling-high tiered shelving is broken by a massive Italian Renaissance fireplace. Above the fireplace hangs a 16th century Flemish tapestry depicting the Triumph of Avarice. Henry Siddons Mowbray created the murals which decorate the room's ceiling. Visible in this image are the lunettes and spandrels formed by the ceiling's groin vaults. The design of the spandrels was inspired by ornamentation Mowbray saw at the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The lunettes alternate between female muses and portraits of historical leaders.
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Local Identifier: liebermans

Title: J.P. Morgan's study, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: J.P. Morgan's study. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. Morgan's study opens off the west side of the library's rotunda. The room's original furnishings remain intact and they are supplemented with additional works of art from the Morgan collection. The red silk wall coverings copy hangings from the Chigi Palace in Rome. Architect Charles McKim purchased the antique Italian wooden ceiling in 1905 but its exact origins remain unknown. The studio of Desiderio da Settignano is traditionally credited with creating the room's marble fireplace. Hanging above the fireplace is a portrait of Pierpont Morgan by painter Frank Holl.
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Local Identifier: liebermann

Title: Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 33 East 36th Street, 2009. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. This room originally served as Belle Greene's study. Greene was the librarian in charge of J. Pierpont Morgan's library from 1905 until 1924 and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924 until 1948.
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Local Identifier: liebermanh

Title: Lower level, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Lower level of the Morgan Library's renovated campus, 225 Madison Avenue. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The expansion project integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space.
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Local Identifier: liebermant

Title: Lunette, Rotunda, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: View of the old entrance to the Morgan library, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The rotunda connected the building's three main rooms: J.P. Morgan's study, J.P. Morgan's library, and the librarian's office. Visitors now enter through a side door which connects the McKim building to the Renzo Piano atrium. The rotunda's dome rises above the composite capitals of the hall's white marble pilasters and green marble columns. The dome's murals are by Henry Siddons Mowbray who looked to Italian Renaissance prototypes when designing his decorative scheme. Pictured is the lunette on the west wall of the rotunda. Mowbray's mural depicts the muse of Lyrical Poetry flanked by poets Tasso and Petrarch.
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Local Identifier: liebermanq

Title: Marble hall, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Marble Hall, Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street, 2009. Following J.P. Morgan's death his home on the corner of Madison Avenue and E. 36th Street was razed and an addition to his library built on the site. Though the two buildings appeared to be separate they connected through a back corridor. Built: 1928; Architect: Benjamin W. Morris. The Marble Hall connects the East and West Galleries in Benjamin Morris's addition to the original Morgan Library building. Morris's Italian Renaissance-inspired building complements the classicism of the Morgan Library's original 1906 building. Key decorative features of the Marble Hall include the inlaid marble floor and the metalwork ceiling panels.
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Local Identifier: liebermanr

Title: Rotunda, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Old entrance to the Morgan library, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The rotunda connected the building's three main rooms: J.P. Morgan's study, J.P. Morgan's library, and the librarian's office. Visitors now enter through a side door which connects the McKim building to the Renzo Piano atrium. The main entrance to the Morgan Library is on the south side of the rotunda, or entrance hall. To the east is the entrance to Morgan's personal library, to the west is the entrance to his study, and to the north, across from the main doors, is the entrance to the Librarian's office. This entrance is framed in an apse which terminates in a semi-dome. Above the white marble door frame is a lunette holding sculpture by Della Robbia. Other notable features of the rotunda include the colored-marble floor, marble pilasters with Composite capitals, and free-standing marble columns which act as lamps. The Italian Renaissance inspired decorat
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Local Identifier: liebermanp

Title: Staircase, Morgan Library atrium, 2009
Description: Interior, Morgan Library atrium, 225 Madison Avenue, 2009. Central atrium of the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The atrium was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: liebermana

Title: View towards Madison Ave., Morgan Library atrium, 2009
Description: 225 Madison Avenue. View towards the Madison Avenue entrance, Morgan Library atrium, 2009. 225 Madison Avenue. Madison Avenue entrance to the Morgan Library. Built: 2006. Architect: Renzo Piano. The entrance was added as part of an expansion project which integrated the three existing buildings on the Morgan's campus and added additional exhibition space.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: liebermanj

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