art history

Elina Gertsman, professor of art history, received a $20,000 grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation for a collaborative project with Vincent Debiais of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. About the project Guillaume de Digulleville, Pèlerinage de l'âme. Illuminati...

Noelle Giuffrida, assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Art, authored Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Published by University of California Press, the text investigates the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art ...

The Medieval Academy of America recently awarded the Digital Red Monastery Church its Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize. Elizabeth Bolman, the Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts, was the principal investigator on the project, an interactive, 360-degree panorama of the sanctua...

Erin Benay, the Climo Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, published her second monograph, titled Exporting Caravaggio: the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The book takes one important painting as a point of departure to consider the ways in which t...

Henry Adams, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and recipient of the 2018 Baker-Nord Center Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities, will present a lecture on Jackson Pollock’s early work and the teacher that inspired it. The lecture, titled “Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson P...

Elina Gertsman, a professor in the Department of Art History ad Art, received one of two inaugural Karen Gould Prizes from the Medieval Academy of America, awarded for a distinguished book in the field of medieval art history. The award is for her recently published monograph, Worlds Within. Opening...

Henry Adams, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, wrote an essay in Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, celebrating the hundred years since the artist was born. The book was reviewed in Maine Antique Digest, including a paragraph about Adams’ contribution, “Andrew Wyeth at the Movies: The Stor...

Yeshiva University professor Steven Fine will discuss the Arch of Titus and Jewish history in the Roman period, exploring the image and symbolism of the arch from the vantage points of various people—emperors, popes, Jews and Christians—who re-interpreted the meaning of the Arch in modern times. Th...

Maggie Popkin, the Robson Assistant Professor of Art History, will give the Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ next Faculty Work-in-Progress talk. Her lecture, titled “Object Memory: Souvenirs and Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” will be held Thursday, Nov. 2, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, ...

The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art. His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond.” Photo by Peter Lu Co-...