Lauryn Smith, PhD candidate specializing in early modern art, has been awarded a competitive pre-doctoral fellowship from the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) to conduct dissertation research in Germany. Her dissertation examines the intimate cabinets of Amalia van Solms-Braunfels, Princess of Orange (1602-1675), to illuminate instances of innovation and...
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Access to the Index of Medieval Art database at Princeton is now provided by Kelvin Smith Library. A link to the database can be found in the Art History and Art database folder on the library's website. Students working remotely can access the resource by first logging into the...
Factum Foundation has initiated a collaboration with a team from the Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Art History and Art Departments at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
The goal is to apply machine learning methods to surface profilometry images of paintings in order to attribute stylistic components...
Prof. Gertsman is delighted to announce the publication of her article, “Playthings: Ivory on Ivory” in Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, edited by Elizabeth Lapina & Vanina Kopp. The article features two Cleveland objects, the celebrated ivory mirror (1940.1200) and the ivory casket with the scenes of romances (1978.39.b). To learn more about the book, click here. To get a copy of the article, please email Prof. Gertsman directly.
Watch a recording of Professor Bolman’s recent lecture, titled “The Red Monastery Church (Upper Egypt): Its Significance and Conservation,” here.
Click here to read the new issue of the university art/sci magazine, which features an article on Prof. Gertsman’s Guggenheim Fellowship and includes a woodcut created by Ben and Reed in her honor!
Undergraduate and Graduate students in Professor Benay's global Baroque course collaborated on a digital humanities project this semester; check out their reconceived map of early modern art here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/255c01493229472fafb862d442d37cc3
Watch a recording of the Physics Colloquium presentation, "Data Science in Art: Discerning the Painter's Hand," here.
Oct 1, 2020
Physics Colloquium (Case Western Reserve University)
Data Science in Art: Discerning the Painter's Hand
Ken Singer, Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics
Mike Hinczewski, Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Physics
Betsy Bolman, Elsie B. Smith...
Thank you for joining us for the end-of-semester holiday gathering, where we did a bit of a catch-up and congratulated our outstanding undergraduates and graduate students on their many achievements during these fraught times!
Join us for a CV workshop with Prof. Gertsman on December 11 at 1:30 EST! Come for advice, stay for destructive fun! Click on “Learn more” for the Zoom link.
Read the interview with Lee Warshawsky, the Co-Director of Friends of Art, here.
The Friends of Art is a volunteer organization that seeks to promote and support the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University through advocacy and educational activities. The group offers opportunities to attend...
Please join us for our annual QP and prospectus presentations on November 20th at 1 pm! Angie Verduci will first speak about her dissertation research, focused on late medieval Triumph of Death murals in northern Italy; Annapoorna Moore will follow with a discussion of the gorgeous fourteenth-century silver belt...