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Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

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  • Harvard Art Museums
  • A color print portrays the muscular system of a woman’s back.

    Join us for a focused talk on color printmaking in the exhibition Dare to Know, with Margaret Morgan Grasselli.

    Registration required

    • Registration dates

    Gallery talks are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The gallery talk reservation will also serve as your general museum reservation. If required, visitors will pay the museum admission fee upon arrival.

    Cost

    $20 Adults

    $18 Seniors (65+)

    Free Sundays—free to all!

    Free All students with a valid ID

    Free Harvard ID holders (plus one guest)

    Free Harvard Art Museums Friends

    Free Youth under 18

    Free Cambridge residents (proof of residency required)

    • Free for some residents

    Location

    • In-person only.

    Harvard Art Museums
    32 Quincy
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    United States

    Neighborhood
  • Neighborhood 9

    Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.

    Dates and Times

    Thu, September 22 2022 12:30PM – 1PM

    Additional information

    Join Margaret Morgan Grasselli for an in-depth discussion about the 18th-century invention of the multicolor, multiplate printing technique that laid the foundation for today’s CMYK process. Grasselli will examine several examples of this technique on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, with particular focus given to Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s Muscles of the Back.

    A color print portrays the muscular system of a woman’s back.

    Thu, September 22 2022 12:30PM – 1PM

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    Last updated September 13, 2022.