Gallery Talk: A Sea of Tulips

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Harvard Art Museums

Drawing of four tulips, each with a bug; three have red and yellow petals and one has pink and white.

Take a dive into Tulipomania and discover how tulips made their way from the Ottoman world into the Low Countries.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Event is free!

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the talk. Talks are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

The Harvard Art Museums are now offering free admission every day, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

.: Sunday, May 26, 12:30PM – 1PM.

Additional information

Join Talitha Maria G. Schepers, curator of the exhibition Imagine Me and You, for a deep dive into the wondrous world of tulips, the tulip trade, and Tulipomania.

Why are there so many Dutch tulip drawings? What prompted the Dutch tulip craze in the 1630s? What are “broken tulips”? And what role did the tulip—a symbol of the Netherlands—play in Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy? Discover all this and much more in this talk.

Free

Drawing of four tulips, each with a bug; three have red and yellow petals and one has pink and white.

.: Sunday, May 26, 12:30PM – 1PM.

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Last updated May 23, 2024.