Pedro Correa do Lago has gathered one of the world's finest autograph collections, acquiring thousands of letters, musical compositions, photographs, drawings, and more. From a medieval parchment signed by four popes to a 2006 thumbprint signature by Stephen Hawking, this book spans nearly 900 years of handwriting, connecting us intimately with...
Drawings and Manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
The Pierpont Morgan Library is now known internationally as both a research center and museum providing visitors access to some of the Western world's most significant cultural artifacts. This publication affords its readers an inside view of these rich holdings, first assembled by a passionate, private collector, with informative essays on priceless illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, on pre-1825 drawings by masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Piranesi, Fuseli, and Blake, on a unique collection of musical scores by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Cage, and others, and on manuscripts and letters by Zola, Picasso, and Einstein as well as other writers, artists, and scientists from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.