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Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is set to celebrate Guo Pei’s extraordinary designs with Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy, April 16 to Sept. 5, 2022, the first comprehensive exhibition of her groundbreaking .
Legion of Honor hosts Last Supper in Pompeii Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave installation at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. Photo: Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- As the ash from Mount Vesuvius began to rain down on Pompeii in AD 79, the people of the city were engaged in two of their most important daily activities: eating and drinking. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco host Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave, the first exhibition to focus on the love of food and drink in Pompeii. The original exhibition, organized by the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, has been adapted and expanded for a California audience and brings to San Francisco a treasure trove of about 150 objects, including magnificent Roman sculpture, mosaics, and frescoes; household furnishings and tableware; objects of precious materials; and more, with many of these wondrous pieces traveli