Spotlight Tour: The Good Life, with Emily Feng ’25
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Emily Feng will explore works of art and material culture through questions about the good and moral life.
Sign-up Information
Ages: Adults.
Wheelchair accessible.
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No application or registration needed.
Cost
This Event 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.
Location
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Neighborhood 9
Dates and Times
Saturday, September 28, 2PM – 2:50PM
Additional information
Looking at a given work, she will ask if the good life is the same thing as the moral life and ponder whether these possibilities might come apart. Stops on this tour, which moves backward through time, are Romans of the Decadence, a small version of an enormous painting Thomas Couture exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1847; a 10th-century Persian bowl inscribed with sayings of the Prophet Muhammad from the Samanid period; and Standing Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, a large Buddhist sculpture made in China during the Sui dynasty (581–618).
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Last updated September 24, 2024.
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