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The Harvard Art Museums, an institution within Harvard University, houses a comprehensive collection of approximately 250,000 objects in all media, spanning from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The building, with its 1895 façade, features a courtyard adorned with glass arcades and a glass roof, which allows natural light to illuminate the interior; the renovation, carried out in the 21st century, was designed by architect Renzo Piano. The collections build on the legacies of the three different museums brought together under one roof: the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum — each with a different history, collection, guiding philosophy, and identity.
The Harvard Art Museums are dedicated to promoting learning and appreciation of art through research, preservation, and education, and have played a leading role in the development of art history and conservation science.
Spanish collection
The following 11 Spanish artworks are a selection from the collection of the Harvard Art Museums:
Column or Columnar Support with Three Apostles: Matthew, Jude, and Simon
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1125–1150
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 116.3 x 27.5 cm (45 13/16 x 10 13/16 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Republic of Spain through the Museo Arqueologico Nacional and Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter
Abacus of Capital from the Abbey of Santa María de Lebanza
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1185
- Medium
- Limestone and mortar with red paint
- Dimensions
- 64 x 64 x 50.5 cm
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Saint John the Baptist and Saint Barbara
by Lluís Borrassà, circa 1411–1413
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 87.4 x 89.8 x 8.2 cm
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Philip III of Spain
by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, circa 1605
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 203.84 x 99.7 cm (80 1/4 x 39 1/4 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Saint Jerome
by Jusepe de Ribera, 1640
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 128 x 101.3 cm (50 3/8 x 39 7/8 in); framed: 165 x 139.5 x 8.2 cm (64 15/16 x 54 15/16 x 3 1/4 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs
Holy Family with Infant Saint John
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, circa 1670
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 120 x 110.5 cm
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Los Caprichos, 43)
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1799
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- Plate: 21.3 x 15.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 in.); sheet: 30.8 x 20.5 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/16 in); platemark: 21.9 x 15.2 cm (8 5/8 x 6 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Woman with a Chignon
by Pablo Picasso, 1901
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Sight: 68.6 x 47.6 cm (27 x 18 3/4 in); framed: 95.3 x 74 x 7.6 cm (37 1/2 x 29 1/8 x 3 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
Seven-Peaks, Guadarrama
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 62.23 x 97.79 cm (24 1/2 x 38 1/2 in); framed: 81.28 x 117.79 x 8.26 cm (32 x 46 3/8 x 3 1/4 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Archer M. Huntington, Class of 1904
Violin and Glass
by Juan Gris, 1915
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Sight: 91.44 x 59.69 cm (36 x 23 1/2 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Mural, March 20, 1961
by Joan Miró, 1961
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 114.3 x 365.8 cm
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Josep Lluís Sert