art history

Erin Benay, assistant professor of Italian Renaissance and baroque art, recently published her first monograph, Faith, Gender, and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Burlington: Ashgate, 2015). The book is co-authored with Lisa M....

The Winged Victory of Samothrace—one of the most acclaimed and widely recognized sculptures in the world—stands majestically, perched atop the prow of a ship at the end of a sprawling marble staircase at the Louvre in Paris. The early 2nd century statue of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory) originall...

The first time Elina Gertsman stepped into a classroom as a teaching fellow in graduate school, she was terrified. But that feeling was soon replaced with another. “At the end of that session, I was elated,” she said. “Who knew I would love teaching so much?” Gertsman, who had been an art critic i...

The campus community is invited to attend the 26th annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities on Wednesday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall. Tim Barringer, the Paul Mellon Professor in the Department of The History of Art, will present the le...

Two Case Western Reserve University faculty members recently joined the ranks of the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellows. Elina Gertsman, associate professor of art history, and Daniel Goldmark, associate professor of music, were elected to this year’s 70-member class fr...

Stacey Pierson, senior lecturer in Chinese ceramics in the History of Art and Archaeology Department at the University of London, will present “Collectors, Collections and Museums: Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960” on Wednesday, March 25, at 6:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hal...

Patricia Fortini Brown, former chair of Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology, will deliver the inaugural Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, sponsored by Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Art History and Art. The event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 5:30...

Edward J. Olszewski, Professor Emeritus of art history, published his book, "Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck: A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art.” The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pa., published the book in April 2014. In the book, Olszewski creates a comprehensive overview ...

The campus community is invited to attend the 25th annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities Wednesday, April 23, at 5:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall. Alice Y. Tseng, associate professor of art and architectural history at Boston University, will give the...

$15 million gift deepens and expands existing partnerships through support of joint doctoral program, scholarship and the museum’s Ingalls Library Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art are launching a landmark initiative that capitalizes on their longtime collaborations as ...