Harvard Art Museums

2023 Apr 24

The Alchemy of Money: Stephen Sack in Conversation with Eurydice Georgantelli

5:30pm to 7:00pm

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485 Broadway, Lecture Hall

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 are treasured as mirrors of our collective stories and reflections of our unconscious memory. With a career spanning over 40 years,...

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2023 Apr 27

Making a Mint! The Harvard Art Museums Materials Lab

10:00am to 12:00pm

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Harvard Art Museum Materials Lab

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 27, 10-12. Meet Master Moneyer April Franklin and her expert assistants and try your hand at minting silver...

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2023 Mar 21

Taking the Measure of French Gothic Architecture, 1130-1280: Geometry, Structure, and Competition.

2:00pm to 4:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums, Naumburg Room, 32 Quincy Street

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 competing to produce structures taller and more daring than any seen before, but the details of this architectural arms race have remained rather obscure, because the...

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2023 Mar 21

Taking the Measure of French Gothic Architecture, 1130-1280: Geometry, Structure, and Competition.

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, Naumburg Room, 32 Quincy Street

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 competing to produce structures taller and more daring than any seen before, but the details of this architectural arms race have remained rather obscure, because the geometrical character of the Gothic design process has rarely been considered in this context. In this workshop, Professor...

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2022 Oct 16

Flesh and Fabric: New Light on a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti

2:00pm to 3:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street
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 to understanding the panel’s unusual imagery. It sheds fresh light on the complex nexus between art, piety, and theology in fourteenth-century Italy, in particular at Assisi—the site of the mother house of the Franciscan order, where the panel most likely was made. This presentation by Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Department of History of Art and... Read more about Flesh and Fabric: New Light on a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti
2022 Oct 13

Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Student Open House

3:30pm to 4:30pm

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Deknatel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

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 expedition is one of the longest-running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest classical archaeology projects in the Mediterranean. As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2022, this event brings together Harvard Art Museums staff and Harvard faculty and students involved in the project to introduce...

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2019 Apr 04

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Workshop

2:00pm to 4:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center, 32 Quincy Street, 4th floor

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 Medieval Material Culture Series The View from the Trenches:...

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2019 Apr 04

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Workshop

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Sardis Office, Harvard Art Museums Somerville Research Facility, 200 Inner Belt Road, Somerville

The View from the Trenches: Sardis and the Practice of Medieval Archaeology, a workshop led by Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University). Space in this workshop is limited; registration information can be found here. This event is part of the 2019 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Series The View from the Trenches:...

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2019 Apr 02

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lecture

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street

Martin Carver (University of York), Driven by Ideas: Some Archaeological Investigations of Early Medieval Transition. This event is part of the 2019 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Series The View from the Trenches: Archaeology and Medieval Studies Today, sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Department of History of Art + Architecture, and the Committee on Archaeology.

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2018 Dec 07

TRACE: Artisanal Intelligence, Material Agency, and Ritual Technology in South Asian Art

(All day)

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Harvard Art Museums, Emerson Hall, and Barker Center
A two-day symposium focused on methodological interventions in, and theoretical implications of, art history’s material turn in the field of South Asian art and architecture c. 500-1500 CE, with a keynote lecture by Vidya Dehejia (Columbia University). Sponsored by the Harvard University South Asia Program, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and the Harvard Art Museums. For a complete program and registration information, please visit the conference... Read more about TRACE: Artisanal Intelligence, Material Agency, and Ritual Technology in South Asian Art
2018 Sep 26

Harvard Art Museums Lecture

6:00pm to 7:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street

Evelin Wetter (Abegg-Stiftung), Brides of Christ and Grooms of the Church: Two Concepts of Liturgical Clothing by Hildegard of Bingen and Arnošt of Pardubice. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and the Harvard Art Museums with the generous support of the M. Victor Leventritt Fund.

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