Spotlight Tour: Model as Muse, with Giselle Acosta ’27

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  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Free

    In this photomontage, a smiling young woman, wearing a white dress with a black belt, gestures toward a painting that appears to float beside her. In the painting, a red-haired woman in a cream-colored dress sits with her head inclined toward a stringed instrument she plays.

    Giselle Acosta will explore the lens through which artists depict their models, specifically the ones they elevate to the rank of muse.

    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 tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

    स्थान

    • In-person only.

    Harvard Art Museums
    32 Quincy
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    संयुक्त राज्य

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  • Neighborhood 9

    Dates and Times

    शनिवार, फेब्रुअरी 15 2PM – 2:50PM

    Additional information

    On this tour, Giselle Acosta ’27 will explore the lens through which artists depict their models, specifically the ones they elevate to the venerable rank of muse. The works on the tour will be Dante Gabriel Rosetti’s A Sea-Spell (1875–77), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-Portrait with Cat (1920), and a 13-century Persian plaque.

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    In this photomontage, a smiling young woman, wearing a white dress with a black belt, gestures toward a painting that appears to float beside her. In the painting, a red-haired woman in a cream-colored dress sits with her head inclined toward a stringed instrument she plays.

    शनिवार, फेब्रुअरी 15 2PM – 2:50PM

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    Last updated जनवरी 29, 2025.