Spotlight Tour: Coloring the Past, with Jide Anekwe ’28

On this tour, Jide Anekwe ‘28 will look at the significance of color in the ancient Mediterranean world and at modern perceptions of the past. The stops on the tour are: Portrait of a woman, a painting from Roman Imperial Egypt (c. 130–150 CE); Youthful hero or god, a marble sculpture from Imperial Rome (1st–2nd century CE) after a Greek sculpture by Skopas from the fourth century BCE; and William Holman Hunt’s painting The Miracle of the Sacred Fire, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (1892–99).

Spotlight Tours are designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines. Each tour is focused on objects chosen by the student and provides visitors a unique, thematic view into the collections. Tours typically feature three works of art, embrace a conversational format, and last about 45 minutes. Open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm.