Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, History, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/4c1MIg7
On this tour, Sophia Scott ’25 will explore bust-length sculpture as a form of visual biography. The stops on the tour will be Edmonia Lewis’s marble sculpture of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871), Pietro Torrigiano’s terracotta sculptures of a man and woman (both dating to around 1510), and Aristide Maillol’s bronze sculpture of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1906).
Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Drop in and join the conversation! And find out what the Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram @harvardarthappens.
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
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