Spotlight Tour: Model as Muse, with Giselle Acosta ’27

On this tour, Giselle Acosta ’27 will explore the lens through which artists depict their models, specifically the ones they elevate to the venerable rank of muse. The works on the tour will be Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s A Sea-Spell (1875–77), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-Portrait with Cat (1920), and a 13-century Persian plaque.

Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Drop in and join the conversation! And find out what the Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram @harvardarthappens.

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Space is limited, and tours are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

You may also like the following events from Harvard Art Museums:

• This Tuesday, 16th September, 12:00 pm, Encounters with Conservation in Cambridge
• This Wednesday, 17th September, 12:30 pm, Gallery Talk: Keep Flowering! Gardens in Islamic and South Asian Art in Cambridge
• This Thursday, 18th September, 12:00 pm, Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black in Cambridge

Also check out other Arts events in Cambridge.