Ongoing Exhibit: Andrew S. Brown, Habits Ancient and Modern: Surface and Depth in the Pillone Library Volumes

Event time: 
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 9:00am to Sunday, April 21, 2019 - 4:00pm
Hours of operation: 

Monday 10 am - 7 pm
Tuesday-Thursday 9 am - 7 pm
Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday 12 pm - 5 pm
Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm

Location: 
Beinecke Library See map
Event description: 

Andrew S. Brown,  Habits Ancient and Modern: Surface and Depth in the Pillone Library Volumes, an exhibition on view at the Beinecke Library, January 18 – April 21, 2019.  Habits Ancient and Modern traces the history of the library assembled by Antonio and Odorico Pillone in Italy in the sixteenth century, and Odorico’s decision to have the fore-edges of many of these volumes painted by Cesare Vecellio, a distant cousin of Titian.

Habits Ancient and Modern is part of Bibliomania, a constellation of exhibitions on view this Spring at the Beinecke Library.

Open to: 
General Public