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The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: [2] [3] the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), [4] the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), [4] and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), [4] and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (founded in 1958), [5] the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (founded ...
Edward Waldo Forbes, of the Forbes family, was born on July 16, 1873, on Naushon Island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. [1][2][3] His father, William Hathaway Forbes, was a co-founder of the Bell Telephone Company with Alexander Graham Bell. [1] His mother, Edith Emerson Forbes, was the daughter of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1]
Today's Figge Art Museum is the successor to the city-owned Davenport Art Museum, which itself began as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery in 1925. The museum's original collection was donated by Charles Ficke (1850–1931) , a successful lawyer and former mayor, who collected art from around the world. [ 2 ]
75 cm × 105 cm (30 in × 41 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Gare Saint-Lazare is a series of oil paintings by the French artist Claude Monet. The paintings depict the smoky interior of this railway station in varied atmospheric conditions and from various points of view. The series contains twelve paintings, all created in 1877 in ...
Location. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus is a painting by Piero di Cosimo from c. 1499. It depicts the god Bacchus and the discovery of honey, as described in the ancient Roman poem Fasti by Ovid. It is in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Portrait of Delphine Ramel, 1855, Fogg Art Museum Delphine was the daughter of Dominique Ramel (1777–1860) and the niece of Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil. She is presented as warm and engaging, devoid of the upper-class pretensions that marked most of his other later-period female portraits.
Bring your night out up a notch with fine art, music, and culture at the museum — First Fridays are back. ... These 21+ events not only give you special after-hours access to the museum, but ...
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Miracle of the Holy Fire (1892–1899) is an oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Holman Hunt which depicts the Greek Orthodox rite of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. Hunt believed the fire to be a pious fraud which brought Christianity into disrepute.