The Harvard Art Museums announced today the appointment of Audrey Sands as the Richard L. Menschel Associate Curator of ...

This terracotta is modeled after a marble relief on the inside of the Arch of Titus, in Rome. It shows soldiers carrying sacred trophies looted from the Temple of Jerusalem while they proceed through ...

Our galleries are ever-changing, with new installations occurring each month throughout the museums. This fall, we’re welcoming rarely seen works of art into our galleries and celebrating diverse ...

"X-radiograph(s) of "Io" (Artist of original: (?) Correggio (Antonio Allegri))(Artist of original: Also att. to Niccolò dell'Abate) , Straus.7342,” Harvard Art ...

This subject’s furrowed brow and close-cropped hair, rendered with simple chisel marks, place this portrait in the third century, a time of prolonged political upheaval, when Roman emperors were ...

A light-skinned, gray haired man faces the viewer, visible from the chest up. He has long gray hair that is tied back with a black ribbon. His eyes are blue, and his complexion is pink, especially ...

Degas displayed the wax figure after which this bronze was cast at the sixth impressionist exhibition, in 1881. The only sculpture that he ever presented publicly, the work caused an uproar for its ...

In a lavish room with ornate tapestries, a young woman with fair skin and long light brown hair lies against cushions on the floor, with only a silk sheet wrapped around her legs. A hookah and a fan ...

With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...

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Under a bower of twining flowered branches, a woman and a man sit naked, side by side in a garden, sharing a kiss. A long, pale orange serpent is coiled along the ground at their feet, its head rising ...