Rustam Rescues Bijan from the Pit, folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi, Iran, Shiraz, Safavid period, c. 1575–90, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist; Anthony Sigel, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture; and Penley Knipe, Philip and Lynn Straus Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums
This gallery talk will focus on the technical analysis and conservation treatment of several works featured in the Calderwood Collection. Conservators and scientists from the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies will describe their analytical approaches, what they did to prepare the ceramics and manuscripts for exhibition, and what their work revealed about the materials and methods used to produce these objects.
Free with the price of admission.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion. Limited to 25 participants; please arrive early.