Tag: Ceramics
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Nation & World
Pearls of Persian art
A generous donation by the late Norma Jean Calderwood — philanthropist, autodidact, and keen-eyed collector — brought a millennium’s worth of Islamic art to Harvard, some of which is now on display for the first time at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
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Nation & World
An ancient statue, re-created
Harvard’s Semitic Museum is employing a high-tech response to the destruction of 3,300-year-old figures, using 3-D scanning to repair a ceramic lion that was damaged by the Assyrians.
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Nation & World
All fired up
The Harvard Ceramics Program turns 40 this year and says goodbye to its longtime director Nancy Selvage.