Gallery Talk: Through the Eyes of an Artist: Pieter Coecke’s 1533 Journey to Istanbul

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Harvard Art Museums

A woodcut showing a large group of people outside celebrating on and around a small hill. A female caryatid, or column, is at left.

Join Talitha Maria G. Schepers for an in-depth exploration of Coecke’s monumental woodcut frieze on view in Imagine Me and You.

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.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

.: Wednesday, May 29, 12:30PM – 1PM.

Additional information

In 1533, Netherlandish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) traveled to Istanbul, presumably accompanying Habsburg ambassador Cornelis de Schepper on his first diplomatic mission. Twenty years later, Coecke’s widow, Mayken Verhulst, printed a monumental woodcut frieze by Coecke chronicling his journey to the Ottoman city. 

A woodcut showing a large group of people outside celebrating on and around a small hill. A female caryatid, or column, is at left.

.: Wednesday, May 29, 12:30PM – 1PM.

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