art history

Majors: BS in chemistry, BA in art historyMinor: Studio artYear: Fourth-year When Sarah Lavin first arrived as an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University four years ago, she knew she wanted to study chemistry, but couldn’t shake her love for studio art. So she decided to combine…

Created in the middle of the 13th century, the Ambrosian Tanakh is the earliest extant Hebrew manuscript to feature zoocephalic, or animal-headed, figures. The book includes an extraordinary pair of scenes on its last pages: Ezekiel’s Vision of the Chariot painted across the gutter from the Feast…

Though the fall leaves on campus may make spring feel far in the future, Case Western Reserve University students will be thinking about the season in the coming days—undergraduate registration for the spring semester begins next Monday, Nov. 16 (depending on the school; graduate program…

Case Western Reserve University's Department of Physics and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will co-sponsor a virtual event titled "Data Science in Art: Discerning the Painter's Hand" Thursday, Oct. 1, from 4 to 5 p.m. The colloquium will include presentations by: Ken Singer, the Ambrose…

Chosen among select class of 175 artists, writers, scholars and scientists Elina Gertsman’s fascination with medieval art began in her childhood spent in Tallinn, Estonia, a city that’s marked with its medieval past: ramparts, towers, churches, guild halls and town square that also reflect its…

Erin Benay, associate professor of art history, wrote a piece for Medium describing a collaboration that led to the creation of a companion exhibition to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Michelangelo: Mind of the Master” exhibition. Graduate students in the CMA-CWRU Joint Program in Art History and…

Lauren Lovings-Gomez, (GRS ’19, art history) wrote a first-person account of her time working with pieces from the Italian lace collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art and how she co-curated an installation of lace in the museum’s Renaissance galleries. Lovings-Gomez’ piece, “Diving into the…

In her art history and museum studies master’s program at Case Western Reserve University, Tori Laser is accustomed to being able to see—but not touch—history. Now, with support from a Rowfant Club of Cleveland fellowship, Laser is able to hold centuries-old books at Kelvin Smith Library in her…

Elina Gertsman, professor of art history and art, and her colleague Vincent Debiais, from École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, received a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The grant will be used to organize an international symposium at Princeton University…

For a podcast titled “Roman Memory (Part 2)—Classics Confidential,” Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor of art history, spoke about the Roman souvenir trade. She specifically commented on glass bottles from Baia, an ancient Roman town. Listen to the full podcast on…