Harvard Art Museums
WEBJust steps away from Harvard Square, the Harvard Art Museums welcome visitors from around the corner and around the world! Enjoy the many amenities that greet you upon entering the museums' expansive and beautifully restored Calderwood Courtyard on the first floor. From there, grab a coffee or snack in Jenny's Cafe or browse the many unique ...
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WEBThe Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
Browse Our Collections - Harvard Art Museums
WEB1996.242.12.A-B: Kōdaiji Scroll Box (Fubako) with Lozenge and Crest Design. Kōdaiji Scroll Box (Fubako) with Lozenge and Crest Design. Explore our collections: approximately 250,000 objects from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The vast collection contains objects spanning from c. 7000 BCE to 2014.
Exhibitions - Harvard Art Museums
WEBJul 1, 2022 — Current A Colloquium in the Visual Arts. August 31, 2024–January 5, 2025 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums The Harvard course A Colloquium in the Visual Arts (Humanities 20) is an introduction to the study of the humanities through major works of art and architecture from around the world: everything from ancient Greek vases and Japanese woodblock prints to Baroque sculpture ...
Finding Its Footing: The Puzzles of an Ancient Amphora
WEBMar 19, 2021 — Index Magazine. Finding Its Footing: The Puzzles of an Ancient Amphora. An amphora, with two bands of impressed decoration depicting horses and horsemen, shown before conservation (left) and after (right), Italic, 550–500 BCE. Buccheroid impasto. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton, 1920.44.313.
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
WEBMay 20, 2023 — Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings.
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WEBa computer sees art. Using artificial intelligence, the Harvard Art Museums has collected 53,375,671 machine-generated descriptions and tags covering 378,002 images of artworks. Ranging from object recognition to face analysis that predicts gender, age, and emotion, the data reveals how computers interpret paintings, photographs, and sculptures.
Understanding Paper: Structures, Watermarks, and a Conservator’s ...
WEBMay 7, 2021 — There is more to paper than meets the eye. Paper conservation fellow Leonie Müller shares with Index readers the material qualities of paper and how its structures reveal the process of how it’s made.. As a paper conservator, I am fascinated by the structure of paper and how different it can look, feel, and even sound—it can be rough or smooth, glossy or matte; it can have varying shades ...
A Spotlight on Early Chinese Jades - Harvard Art Museums
WEBApr 16, 2019 — Jade objects may be viewed in person in the museums’ gallery dedicated to early Chinese art (Gallery 1740, on Level 1), and by appointment in the Art Study Center. Representing a new shape in Neolithic blades, the ge- halberd blade was modeled after a bronze weapon produced at the start of the Bronze Age. Jade copies were likely held as ...
Understanding Ancient Chinese Vessels - Harvard Art Museums
WEBJun 29, 2016 — Earthenware. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Gift of Mrs. John Dane, 1941, 41–61–60/7161, 99320164, TL41522.9. Rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramic objects are now receiving plenty of attention as part of Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, an exhibition currently on …