Two staff members from our Division of Academic and Public Programs discuss how the museums foster museum literacy and a ...

The vessel has a wide shallow rim and two horizontal handles and one long handle which connects to the rim. In red, black, and yellow there is a scene in two tiers. The lower tier depicts a man ...

Quickly brushed, brightly painted, slanting strokes depict a still life of a bowl of peaches on a table at center left. Four ripe peaches in orange and yellow are visible piled into a round porcelain ...

A silver vessel which has been polished to a high reflective shine. It is concave and round in shape, with a wide rim which features three shapes which rise up and curl away from the center of the ...

Against a medium dark brown background, monochrome tan brushstrokes depict a nude adolescent male crouching on the ground. Leaning forward on his arms, he looks ahead to the left and away from the ...

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"Joshua's Victory (Giovanni Petrini)(After Raphael) , G2722,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 15, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/279110.

Eight men are drawn standing in a group. Some in conversation, others not. One man faces away from the viewer while the remaining seven are positioned forwards. Each man wears a long, flowing robe, a ...

This black ink drawing shows a woman, visible from the shoulders up, with black hair wearing a white tunic. She holds up her left hand as two small imp-like creatures with black claws and waist bands ...

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Under a bower of twining flowered branches, a woman and a man sit naked, side by side in a garden, sharing a kiss. A long, pale orange serpent is coiled along the ground at their feet, its head rising ...

Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...