Prof. Elina Gertsman was recently interviewed about her Guggenheim Fellowship on NPR's Ideastream! Listen here.
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Huge congratulations to Angie Verduci for receiving the ICMA Student Travel Grant, which will support research for her dissertation on Northern Italian “Triumph of Death” imagery. Only three such awards are annually given.
Congratulations to Reed on receiving the Graduate Student Appreciation Award for the second year in a row! Reed’s nominator described her as a consummate student — active, engaged, kind, sharply intelligent, extremely personable — with a zeal for learning and discovery.
Professor Erin Benay's article, "Of Rhinos, Peppercorns, and Saints: (Re)presenting India in Medici Florence," was just published in an exciting new anthology about the Global Renaissance!
This summer, first-year MA student Katie DiDomenico will work as a digital content creator for the Akron Art Museum. The collection at the Akron Art Museum features regional, national, and international artworks created since 1850, with particular strengths in contemporary painting and sculpture and 20th-century photography. Katie has worked...
Announcing a new course offering for Fall 2020! Professor Elina Gertsman will be teaching ARTH 545 The Breath of All That Lives: Topics in Medieval Jewish Art.
This seminar will explore late medieval Jewish art from western Europe and beyond. The first part of the seminar will focus on broad historical and historiographic...
Announcing a new course offering for Fall 2020! Professor Erin Benay will be teaching Going for Baroque: Early Modern Art in the Age of Global Expansion.
This course explores the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era of rising nationalism, political aggrandizement, religious upheaval and extravagant art patronage...
Dr. Elizabeth Bolman will be giving a live Zoom lecture on Wednesday, May 6 at 5 p.m on the Red Monastery Project. Please see the flyer below for details.
The Department of Art History and Art will celebrate the end of the semester on May 4 at 10:30 a.m. See the flyer below for details.
Congratulations to Nikki DeLuca (PhD 2020) who just published "Medieval Art and the Cult of Saints" in Oxford Bibliographies in Art History, ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (New York: Oxford University Press). The piece was co-authored with Prof. Gertsman.
Hear William Griswold, Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, on the Keithley's amazing gift to the CMA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jngXrZbNYSs&feature=youtu.be
Courtney Toelle, a first-year MA student in Art History and Museum Studies, will be a Family Programs intern for the HARN Museum Art at the University of Florida. She will develop virtual experiences for families to engage with the museum from home. Congratulations, Courtney!