Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture
Sheila Canby, the Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will examine the illustrations of the Shahnama produced for the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524–76) between roughly 1524 and 1535.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
6–7pm
Following the lecture, select galleries related to topics covered in the talk will be open for one hour.
Harvard Art Museums
Menschel Hall
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.
Free and open to the public
The Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture Fund honors a longtime friend of the Harvard Art Museums who pursued graduate study in Islamic art at Harvard and who for many years taught Islamic and Asian art at Boston College and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Image: Afrasiyab and Siyavush Embrace, Iran, Tabriz, Safavid period, 1520–40. Black ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on off-white paper, with underdrawing in black ink. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art, 2002.50.13.
