art history

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…

One need not travel far to see where Professor of Art History and Art Elina Gertsman found inspiration for her new book, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press, 2018). All of the 50 pieces that she and her co-author, Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), explore in…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…