Virtual gallery tours are designed especially for our Friends and Fellows and are led by our curators, fellows, and other specialists.
One of the works Vlad Batagui will discuss is the seventh-century mural painting Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.
It’s all about the relationship between art and its origins in this tour with Vlad Batagui from the Ho Family Student Guide Program.
Clockwise from top left: Mark Sealy, courtesy of Steve Pyke; Ilisa Barbash, courtesy of Kris Snibbe / Harvard Gazette; Makeda Best, courtesy of Unique Nicole; and David Odo, courtesy of Matthew Monteith.
It’s all about pleasure in this tour with Felipe Muñoz from the Ho Family Student Guide Program.
Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci da Pontormo), Italian, Reclining Nude Youth, c. 1537–42. Red chalk on cream antique laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser, 1932.144.
Professor Dennis Geronimus of NYU discusses a selection of Pontormo’s unforgettable figure studies with curator Joachim Homann.
One of the works Sophia Mautz will discuss is Under the Cherry Blossoms, an early 16th-century illustration for The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsunobu. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.
Curator Makeda Best explores the history of photography collecting at Harvard and her work to foreground new perspectives and interpretations.
One of the works Vlad Batagui will discuss is the seventh-century mural painting Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.
It’s all about museum practice in this tour with Kaitlin Hao from the Ho Family Student Guide Program.
One of the works Adam Sella will discuss is the painting A Nayika and Her Lover (c. 1660–70), by an unidentified artist in India. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.
It’s all about the beauty of decay in this tour with Mei Tercek from the Ho Family Student Guide Program.
Antonio Tempesta, Italian, Published by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch, A Wolf Hunt, with a Dead Ram as Bait, 16th–17th century. Engraving. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Eric A. von Raits in memory of Helen van C. de Peyster von Raits, M22312.22.
Join us on Zoom for an evening with Joy Harjo, U.S. poet laureate and author of the acclaimed recent work An American Sunrise.
Antoine Louis François Sergent-Marceau, French, François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, 1798. Wash manner color printed on cream antique laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints, 2016.12.
Hidden in a luxe color print of a French general is the untold story of female revolutionary and printmaker Émira Sergent-Marceau.
Cuff band with animals in interlocking scrolls, Byzantine, late 4th to early 5th century. Wool and linen, tapestry weave. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg, 2004.204.
Discover what technical examination of garment fragments and a burial shroud can teach us about how ancient Egyptian textiles were made.
Watanabe Seitei, Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months, Japanese, Meiji era, c. 1890. Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on silk. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Acquired with a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art, 2020.252. Image: Courtesy of Grace Tsumugi Gallery.
Join Rachel Saunders for a close look at a major new acquisition that challenges the category of “Japanese art.”
Flying Apsaras Holding a Bowl, from Tianlongshan Cave 3, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, 534–550. Sandstone. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.53.16.
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