Spotlight Tour: Seeing In/Looking Out, with Sophia Pasalis ’25
By Harvard Art Museums
Sophia Pasalis will examine how interior life is portrayed in art and the boundary between public and private life and inside and outside.
.: Saturday, March 30 11am – 11:50am.
Contact
No application or registration needed.
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.
Location
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Wheelchair accessible.
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Additional information
On this tour, Sophia Pasalis ’25 will explore how interior life is portrayed in art and the fragile boundary between public and private life, work and home, and inside and outside. The stops on the tour are an ink painting from a Chinese album of rice and silk culture, traditionally attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (Chinese, c. 1494–52); Still Life at the Window (1950), an oil painting made in Germany, by Werner Heldt; and Alice Villette (1872), an oil painting, made in Paris, by Edgar Degas.
Last updated March 18, 2024.
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