art history

The Department of Art History and Art will host a presentation by Christiane Gruber, professor of the history of art at the University of Michigan. Gruber will present “The Praiseworthy One: Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions” Friday, Dec. 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at…

Catherine Scallen, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and associate professor of art history, wrote about the sale of “Lot and His Daughters” by Peter Paul Rubens, a famous Flemish Baroque painter, which went for $58 million. Her article was published on Meural, a platform for…

The Institute for the Science of Origins will host the final public lecture in the Life, the Universe and Hot Dogs series at the Happy Dog at Euclid Tavern today (Nov. 14) at 7 p.m. Andrea Rager, the Jesse Hauk Shera Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Art, will present…

The Department of Art History and Art, in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art, will host Penelope J. E. Davies of the University of Texas at Austin for this year’s Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art. Davies will present “Destruction and Defiance in Late Republican Rome” Wednesday, Nov. 7,…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s next Conversations at Judson Park event will be held Monday, Nov. 12, from noon to 1 p.m. at Judson Park (2181 Ambleside Dr.). Elina Gertsman, professor in the Department of Art History and Art, will present “Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Her…

The Case Western Reserve University–Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Graduate Program in Art History and Museum Studies will host the 44th annual Cleveland Symposium: “Built Environments and Performances of Power” Friday, Oct. 26, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host Conversations at Judson Park, a monthly luncheon program open to the public through December. Local university faculty and laypeople will lead discussions on a variety of academic and contemporary issues, giving participants an opportunity to engage…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture with Elina Gertsman, professor in the Department of Art History and Art. Gertsman will present “Ex nihilo/In nihilum: Contending with Medieval Void” Wednesday, Oct. 3, from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room…

Inspired by Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, the Keithley Symposium will explore of the birth, lives and afterlives of objects. The event honors the sculpture’s centennial, remarks upon its layered history and includes interdisciplinary conversations about how humans interpret impermanence and what it…

Professor of Art History and Art Elina Gertsman was recently interviewed about her new book The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Gertsman and her co-author Barbara H. Rosenwein answered 10 questions about themselves and the book for a blog. Through their answers, they addressed why they chose the…