Story Archive

Story Archive

  • In the Margins of Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings

    In the Margins of Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings

    In addition to its lavish illustration and decoration program, one of the most immediately striking features of the Peck Shahnama is the large number of marginal inscriptions that it includes. While the addition of marginalia is a feature of many...
  • Transforming Nature: The Watercolors in Cézanne and the Modern

    Transforming Nature: The Watercolors in Cézanne and the Modern

    According to the French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, during Paul Cézanne’s later years it was not uncommon to discover watercolors he had discarded in the fields near Aix-en-Provence—scattered testimonials to the fine disregard the artist apparently displayed toward these sheets...
  • Director's Letter Winter 2016

    Director's Letter Winter 2016

    I have long considered collaboration a practical virtue in helping cultural institutions survive and even punch above their weight class. On the basis of what we see at Princeton this season, it is a creative virtue as well.
  • Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang

    Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang

    At the western edge of China lies the Taklamakan Desert. Bordered by mountain ranges to its north and south, the desert stands as a forbidding gateway between the civilizations of East and Central Asia. To traverse this formidable expanse, two...
  • Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings

    Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings

    Composed more than one thousand years ago by the Persian poet Firdausi, the Shahnama , or Book of Kings, narrates the story of Iran from the dawn of time to the seventh century A.D. This sweeping epic spans the reigns...
  • Cézanne and the Modern

    Cézanne and the Modern

    This fall, visitors to the Princeton University Art Museum have the opportunity to view remarkable works from the Pearlman Collection by Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, and—especially—Paul Cézanne. The works return to Princeton,...
  • Director's Letter Fall 2015

    Director's Letter Fall 2015

    The return to Princeton this fall of the Pearlman Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art after an eighteen-month, four-nation tour is cause for celebration. Apart from the art historical issues to be discovered in Cézanne and the Modern , the...