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 Evento 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.

Localização

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
Estados Unidos

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

sábado, Fevereiro 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.

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.

sábado, Fevereiro 15 2PM – 2:50PM

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Last updated Janeiro 29, 2025.