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Join the Harvard College Piano Society for their annual winter recital in the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard!
Portrait of a woman, Egypt, probably from Philadelphia (near er-Rubayat), second half 2nd century CE. Support: native Egyptian sycamore fig (Ficus sycomorus), willow wood (Salix species); binder: animal glue; pigments: bassanite, anhydrite, alunite, red and yellow ochres, bone black, carbon black, madder lake, red lead. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1939.111.
Interested in art of the ancient world? Explore ancient painting processes and make your own copy of a Roman-period funerary portrait.
John Russell, British, Lunar Planisphere, Hypothetical Oblique Light, 1806. Stipple and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, TL42412.2.
Kick off the holiday season by taking the family to see this puppet extravaganza based on Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol.
William Playfair, Scottish, The History of Jacobinism, Its Crimes and Perfidies, 1795. Red leather and marble bound book with etchings and engravings. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patrice Higonnet, M21315.1–33.
Join us for a focused talk on 18th-century book binding in the exhibition Dare to Know, with conservation technician Yi Bin Liang.
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, French, “Muscles of the Back,” plate 14 from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size), 1746. Color mezzotint. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1968, 1968-25-79n, TL42415.2. Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.
Portrait of a woman, Egypt, probably from Philadelphia (near er-Rubayat), second half 2nd century CE. Support: native Egyptian sycamore fig (Ficus sycomorus), willow wood (Salix species); binder: animal glue; pigments: bassanite, anhydrite, alunite, red and yellow ochres, bone black, carbon black, madder lake, red lead. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1939.111.
Join museum staff for a fresh look at objects in the collections through the lens of various topics.
László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on New Year’s Day.
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, French, “Muscles of the Back,” plate 14 from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size), 1746. Color mezzotint. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1968, 1968-25-79n, TL42415.2. Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
