The Harvard Art Museums announced today the appointment of Audrey Sands as the Richard L. Menschel Associate Curator of ...
Our galleries are ever-changing, with new installations occurring each month throughout the museums. This fall, we’re welcoming rarely seen works of art into our galleries and celebrating diverse ...
In a lavish room with ornate tapestries, a young woman with fair skin and long light brown hair lies against cushions on the floor, with only a silk sheet wrapped around her legs. A hookah and a fan ...
"Der Eintanzer (Rebecca Horn) , 2014.199.5,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 29, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/351633.
The painting is constructed of loose, suggestive brushstrokes. Depicted from above, a small cottage is in the foreground to the right atop a grassy bluff overlooking the ocean. The pitched roof of the ...
This subject’s furrowed brow and close-cropped hair, rendered with simple chisel marks, place this portrait in the third century, a time of prolonged political upheaval, when Roman emperors were ...
At the bottom of a wide black dish with two handles in red there is a man and woman within a ring of repeating spiral designs. He is nude with a tail and holds the woman's arm while she turns toward ...
A long terracotta nail that has been inscribed along the top end with small symbols. It is tan and orange in color and has a small, flared top edge. It is shown laying vertically on a white background ...
The vessel is a tall bowl with handles on either side. It is painted black, and in red there are three figures. The figure on the left is nude with laurels in his hair, and is seated playing a flute.
This terracotta is modeled after a marble relief on the inside of the Arch of Titus, in Rome. It shows soldiers carrying sacred trophies looted from the Temple of Jerusalem while they proceed through ...
A vase is placed right of center as the garden roses and leaves hang over the vase, filling the empty space on the left. Seven full roses are seen in various angles and stages of bloom from opening ...