art history

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…

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,…