November 9 Lecture—Portraits of Objects, Impressions of People: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

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.