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Spotlight Tour: Origins and Impacts of Color, with Erik Zou ’24

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  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Free

    A young man in a campus yard gestures toward a painting that appears to float. It shows a woman draped in blue and red holding a baby.

    Erik Zou will discuss the material nature of color and examine the role of color in three different artworks.

    No application or registration needed.

    Cost

    This Event is free!

    Please check in with museum staff at the Admissions 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.

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    • In-person only.

    Harvard Art Museums
    32 Quincy
    Cambridge, MA 02138
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  • Neighborhood 9

    Dates and Times

    Sun, April 21 2024 11AM – 11:50AM

    Additional information

    On this tour, Erik Zou ’24 will discuss the material nature of color in art, referencing the museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection, and the role of color in three different works: Sandro Botticelli’s painting The Virgin and Child (c. 1490); a porcelain jar decorated with two dragons from Jingdezhen, China (Ming dynasty, late 16th–early 17th century); and Claude Monet’s painting The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train (1877).

    Free

    A young man in a campus yard gestures toward a painting that appears to float. It shows a woman draped in blue and red holding a baby.

    Sun, April 21 2024 11AM – 11:50AM

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    Harvard Art Museums

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    Last updated April 15, 2024.