Harvard Art Museums

A three-day symposium, part of the Harvard University-Max Planck Institute collaborative project Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle , bringing together art historians, historians of science, material culture scholars, conservators, museum curators, and...

The first in a series of symposia presented by the "Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle" project of the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, this two-day event will explore how the value...

Stephen Sack is an acclaimed Brussels-based American artist whose work investigates money's poetic and philosophical beauty and the importance of the magical connection between 'worthless' objects and imagination. Lost and found, worn and corroded, coins...

Curious about how coins were made from their inception in 7th-century BCE Lydia until the birth of mechanized coinage at Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory in 18th-century Birmingham, Britain? Visit the Harvard Art Museums Materials Lab on Thursday, April...

The Gothic architectural tradition emerged in France around 1130, and it flourished spectacularly for the century and a half that followed. Scholars have long recognized that French builders made dramatic progress in this period largely because they were...

The Gothic architectural tradition emerged in France around 1130, and it flourished spectacularly for the century and a half that followed. Scholars have long recognized that French builders made dramatic progress in this period largely because they were...

At the top of a painting of a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280–1348), an angel holds in one hand an unfurled scroll and in the other a bloody tunic. Never previously noted, let alone explained, this unique combination of motifs provides the key...

Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey from the prehistoric through the Islamic periods...

The View From the Trenches: Archaeology and Medieval Studies Today, the 2019 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Series. Featuring a keynote lecture by Martin Carver (University of York) on Tuesday, 2 April, a student seminar with Dr. Carver on Wednesday, 3...

The View from the Benches? Museum Collections and Medieval Archaeology, a workshop led by Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University). Space for this workshop is limited; registration information can be found here. This event is part of the 2019 Harvard...