Art Study Center Seminar: Roman Wall Painting
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Fausto Benedetti, 1925.6.35.
Seminar
Harvard Art Museums32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Once decorating the interiors of wealthy Roman homes, ancient Roman wall paintings are among the most luxurious and colorful artifacts to remain from antiquity, yet they often survive only in fragments. This session will focus on a wall painting fragment from the Roman imperial villa at Boscotrecase in southern Italy, created at the turn of the first century CE. Led by Elizabeth Molacek, the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, the seminar will examine the painting’s ancient context and modern biography and will subsequently explore the way in which even small fragments can illuminate our understanding of the sumptuous spaces in the ancient world.
The seminar will take place in the Art Study Center, Level 4.
Free admission, but capacity is limited to 15 and registration is recommended. To register, please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the program to allow sufficient time to sign in at the Art Study Center reception desk. Note that there is a wait list for this program; spots unclaimed by 11am will be released to those on the wait list. Please be prepared to present a photo ID.
Lockers are available on the Lower Level, Level 1, and Level 4 to check bags, coats, umbrellas, and any food or drink.