Spotlight Tour: Coloring the Past, with Jide Anekwe ’28

How to join: Check in at the Visitor Services desk; space is limited.&nbsp; Fee: This is a free event.&nbsp; Accessibility accommodations: If you would like to request accommodations for your visit, please contact Visitor Services at <a href="mailto:am_register@harvard.edu">am_register@harvard.edu</a> or 617-495-9400. For more details about accommodations at the museums, please see the <a href="https://harvardartmuseums.org/visit/accessibility/museum-access">Accessibility</a> page. On this tour, Jide Anekwe ‘28 will look at the significance of color in the ancient Mediterranean world and at modern perceptions of the past. The stops on the tour are: <a href="https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/219609?position=0">Portrait of a woman</a>, a painting from Roman Imperial Egypt (c. 130–150 CE); <a href="https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/303674?position=0">Youthful hero or god</a>, a marble sculpture from Imperial Rome (1st–2nd century CE) after a Greek sculpture by Skopas from the fourth century BCE; and William Holman Hunt’s painting <a href="https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230319?position=0">The Miracle of the Sacred Fire, Church of the Holy Sepulchre</a> (1892–99). Spotlight Tours are designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines. Each tour is focused on objects chosen by the student and provides visitors a unique, thematic view into the collections. Tours typically feature three works of art, embrace a conversational format, and last about 45 minutes. Open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm.

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