Spanish classes explore art and cultural heritage at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
AP Spanish Language and Culture
AP Spanish Language and Culture students visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where they studied a fresco that once decorated the apse of a small church in Santa Maria de Mur, Lleida, Cataluña, Spain. Dating to 1117, the fresco was removed in 1919 and sold to the MFA to pay for a new roof for the church. It's considered the finest example of Catalán Romanesque apse outside of Barcelona, and its removal prompted Spain to enact laws prohibiting artifacts important to national heritage from leaving the country.
Advanced Topics in Spanish
Advanced Topics in Spanish students are working on a display that we hope to share with the school community soon. They were asked to consider how to use objects or visuals to tell a story with minimal text, how objects and spaces are arranged and organized, and how decisions about what to include are made. Students are seen here examining ancient Greek coins.