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Virtual Student Guide Tour: LOL, with Cecilia Zhou

In this photomontage, Cecilia Zhou is smiling and is seated on a couch and leaning against a stone wall. Her right hand points up to a painting depicting a scene with several half-dressed figures and a sleepy cherub in a landscape setting.
Cecilia Zhou points to Francesco Fracanzano’s The Drunken Silenus, which she will discuss on the tour. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.

Tour

Cecilia Zhou ’22 looks at the historically specific ways humor is deployed in a few serious works of art from across time that may make you laugh out loud (LOL). She’ll focus on the 1640s painting The Drunken Silenus, by Francesco Fracanzano; the 18th-century scroll painting Puppies with Hotei and Jittoku, by Nagasawa Rosetsu; and a selection of prints based on 1930s photomontages by John Heartfield.

This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92674933310 (free admission; no pre-registration required).

Virtual Student Guide Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Each tour is unique, so drop in and join the conversation!

Read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom. For general questions about Student Guide Tours, email am_register@harvard.edu.

This program is supported by the Ho Family Student Guide Fund.

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and offer a unique, thematic view into the collections.

The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.