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...professor in the Fine Arts Department has gathered portrait, ranging from death masks to oils, for a show opening tonight at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum that will be used to teach his core course this spring...
...supplement the usual reading, writing, and sections for Literature and Arts B-31, "The Portrait," Professor of Fine Arts Henri T. Zerner has gathered more than 100 works of art at the one-year-old Sackler. Zerner will open the show at 5:30 p.m. with a required lecture and tour of the exhibit...
Zerner, who is also curator of prints of Harvard's art museums, said he planned the art show to teach his students that "portraits are not simple things." A portrait is more than just a reflection of the subject's physical features, he said...
...exhibit, which opens to the public Saturday, features portraits from 3000 B.C. to the 1980s by artists from Sumeria to Renaissance Europe to modern America. Zerner said he plans to use examples from the portraits on display to demonstrate the development of the portrait from the stereotypical style of the ancient Egyptians to the detail of Rembrandt...
Other works on display include Francois Boucher's "Mme. de Pompadour and her Toilet," Kirchner's "Self-Portrait with a Cat," the Egyptian "Stele of Ramses II," and the likenesses of such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Sophocles, Louis XIV, Nero, and Oliver Wendall Holmes...