Tour Harvard
Tour the campus
The Gates of Harvard
Roosevelt slept here


Events 2008
University Calendar
Commencement sights and sounds


Multimedia
Slides


Videos


Special presentations


This Month in
Harvard History

April 23, 1949
For the eighth consecutive time, the Harvard Varsity Crew wins the Compton Cup Race on the Charles River.

Arts
April 24, 2008

A masterpiece, a teaching tool
Ghent Altarpiece detail

This detail of a Jan van Eyck Madonna displays the painter’s skill in rendering extreme detail without sacrificing the coherence of the overall composition. Hugo van der Velden uses Van Eyck paintings as a teaching tool in his History of Art and Architecture course.

Image courtesy of Hugo van der Velden

Ghent Altarpiece is window into history of art

Humanities: From deconstruction to digitization

Greenblatt to be honored

From breaking to Brahms: Everything under the sun to shine at Arts First

Fourteen awarded fellowships to further artistic development

Houghton exhibit features Islamic sciences