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January 16, 2019

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Religious wall fresco with chunks and sections of plaster missing from damage
Ars Longa: Documenting a Trove of Frescoes Nearly Lost to War
The Camposanto complex in Pisa, Italy, housed some of the most significant fresco paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries—until their near destruction during World War II. The Frick Art Reference Library’s Photoarchive contains images from before the damage and prior to extensive restoration efforts, providing a window into a crucial period in the site’s long history.
Two book covers on a shelf, one featuring a painting of a dog and the other a sculpture of a cat
Reading List: National Pet Day
The Frick Art Reference Library celebrates all our furry friends this National Pet Day! Discover recommended reads about cats and dogs, plus images of unexpected domestic animals from our digital collections and archival photos of the Frick family’s pets.
screenshot of the Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities site
Is There a Portrait in Your Past?
painting, Flaming June, of woman in repose in lush and vivid orange sheer garment
Leighton, Whistler, and Aestheticism
Video still of Darren Walker and Rachel Himes speaking at The Frick Collection
Samuel H. Kress Lecture in Museum Education 2018
The Frick presented a conversation both critical and timely, following months of national dialogue surrounding the removal and recontextualization of Confederate monuments across the country.
Color photograph of Helen Sanger, who died in July 2020.
Remembering Helen Sanger, Frick’s First Mellon Chief Librarian
Helen Sanger (1923–2020), the Frick Art Reference Library’s first Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, passed away in July at the age of 96. Her forty-seven-year career at the library shaped the institution profoundly, and her legacy lives on in many areas of its initiatives.
Stack of five art history books with spines showing
Reading List: 2021 Library Acquisitions
The Frick Art Reference Library’s collection is wide ranging—and constantly evolving. Mary Seem, Acquisitions Lead, offers a sample of the recent book acquisitions of the past year, which enrich and expand on a variety of fascinating topics represented in the library’s holdings.
A man showing a paper to a woman in a headscarf seated at a table with a musical instrument
What We Look at When We Look at a Vermeer
On the occasion of the return of The Frick Collection’s three paintings by Johannes Vermeer to their display at Frick Madison, Christopher Snow Hopkins, Associate Editor, reflects on the experience of viewing the canvases in the Rijksmuseum’s monumental Vermeer exhibition this year.
catalogue cover of Fragonard's Progress of Love at the Frick Collection
Colin B. Bailey Wins AAMC Award
Three-quarter-length portrait of a man against a landscape, pointing to three pyramids.
A Cosgrave as a Copley