University Study Gallery, University Research Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
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Now open at the Harvard Art Museums, this exhibition presents the rich cross-cultural artistic connections that took place over 300 years between the Dutch, the Flemish, and the Islamic world and challenges the persistent notion that war—in particular, religious war between Christians and Muslims—dominated their interactions, and shows how artists experienced multiple and diverse encounters through travel, trade, and diplomacy.
- Curated by Talitha Maria G. Schepers, 2022–24 Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums.
- The approximately 120 objects in the exhibition include drawings, prints, paintings, textiles, and more.Artists include Margaretha Adriaensdr. de Heer, Haydar Reis, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Melchior Lorck, Nicolas de Nicolay, Lucas van Leyden, Jacob Marrel, Rembrandt, and many more.
- Recent research by conservators and conservation scientists is also incorporated, from a display of historical artist materials that includes an in-situ experiment on realgar-type pigments, to technical research on the fabrication of metallic threads in an Ottoman kaftan, and more.
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