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Making and Unmaking Value II: Transformations through Space

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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...

Harvard Art Museums Lecture

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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...

Harvard Art Museums Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture

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Alan Stahl (Princeton University), Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Making a Mint! The Harvard Art Museums Materials Lab

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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...

Harvard Art Museums Lecture

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Roger Bland (Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum), How Coin Finds are Changing the Face of Roman Britain: The Contribution of the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center Seminar

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Islamic Manuscripts, featuring a Kashmiri manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnama (Book of Kings); with presentations by Mary McWilliams (Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art), assistant curator Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, and Calderwood...

2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Workshop

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The Craft of Medieval Glass: Decorative Glass in the Harvard Art Museums, with Katherine Eremin (Harvard Art Museums Straus Center for Conservation) and Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University). This workshop is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material...

A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti

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An exhibition featuring illustrated Persian manuscripts and detached folios of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, collected by Harvard alumnus Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), the famous American art historian and connoisseur of Italian...

Making and Unmaking Value I: Transformations through Time

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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...

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Workshop

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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...

The Harvard Medieval Material Cultures Workshop

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Interwoven: Textiles from the Medieval Mediterranean. A workshop exploring the production, uses, and meanings of textiles in the Byzantine, Islamic, and Latin Mediterranean basin, drawing upon the rich collections of the Harvard Art Museums. Presenters...

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshops

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Lasting Impressions: Coins and Seals as Material and Message in the Middle Ages, the 2018 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lecture and Workshop Series. Featuring lectures by Princeton University's Alan Stahl on Monday, 19 March and NYU's Brigitte Bedos...