art history
June 14, 2013
Jenifer Neils knew she wanted to be an archaeologist in the third grade after she read about field archaeology pioneer Heinrich Schliemann—a man whose work advocated the idea that Homer’s Iliad reflected actual historical events.
She hasn’t looked back since.
After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Neils w...
May 25, 2013
A newly published book, Mexico and American Modernism (Yale University Press), caps the 31-year academic career of Ellen G. Landau, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.
Landau, a faculty member in the Cleveland Museum of Art/Case Western Reserve Unive...
April 17, 2013
Thomas Kren, associate director of collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will give the 24th annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities.
His talk, “Naked at Prayer: Religious Art and Scandal in 15th Century France” will take place Wednesday, April 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Cle...
February 25, 2013
This year, the Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art will feature John R. Clarke of the University of Texas at Austin, as he presents “Luxury, Commerce and Death in the Villas Buried by Vesuvius at Oplontis.” The talk will take place Wednesday, March 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art recit...