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Writing on Still Life (CANCELLED)

Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA

Feb 15 2023
Writing on Still Life (CANCELLED)

Margaretha Adriaensdr. de Heer, Dutch, Still Life of Flowers and Small Animals on a Ledge, 1642. Watercolor, gouache, and black chalk on parchment. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised gift, 7.2019.15.

Join two graduate students for an opportunity to combine art looking and writing in an interactive online session.

In this interactive online session, led by art history graduate students Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (Harvard University) and Sara Petrilli-Jones (Yale University and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), we will look closely at a still-life drawing by Margaretha de Heer, called Still Life of Flowers and Small Animals on a Ledge (1642). Together, you will consider the relationship between looking, describing, and imagining. Prompted by De Heer’s drawing, we will ask a series of questions: how ... view more »

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