The review provides a powerful endorsement of the kind of academic and curatorial collaboration exemplified by Professor Gertsman course, "Piety and Leisure in Late Medieval Europe." This was the first graduate seminar of its kind, made possible by the Mellon foundation, which was based on the extraordinary collection of...
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On November 14, Prof. Steven Fine discussed the way Arch of Titus was seen and interpreted throughout history, from the Roman period to the present day. Dr. Fine’s ongoing exhibition at Yeshiva University features a true-to-life replica of the Spoils of Jerusalem relief from the Arch, made thanks to the three-dimensional and polychrome scanning done as part of the YU’s Arch of Titus Project in 2012.
Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University will present “Leonardo’s Legacy: The Artist as Scientist in Seventeenth-Century Italy. Wednesday, November 8, 5:00pm, Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall. Free and open to the public; reception to follow.
Professor Christina Maranci, Tufts University, will present Adventures in Armenian Architecture
Friday, September 29, 2017, 5:30pm Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall
The Church of Surb Sargis (Saint Sergius), (Digor, mod. Turkish Republic), 1029.
Photo by Christina Maranci.
The region of Ani and Kars, on the eastern borders of the modern-day Turkish Republic, is...
The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to welcome Elizabeth (Betsy) S. Bolman as its new chair and Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts. A leading expert on late antique, Byzantine, and early medieval Egyptian art, Professor Bolman most recently directed a wall-painting conservation project...
Our MA graduates after the diploma ceremony. From left to right: Prof. Holly Witchey, Bailey Pfohl, Tony Huffman, Jerika Jordan,Cara Coleman, Allison Slenker, Prof. Catherine Scallen. Congratulations to all!
Aimee Caya, a first-year doctoral student, and Kylie Fisher, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Art History and Art, have received Graduate Dean’s Instructional Excellence Awards. These awards are given to university graduate students who participate in undergraduate education as teaching assistants and display excellence in their...
Erin Benay, Assistant Professor of Art History and Catherine Scallen, the Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Art History and Art, have received Diekhoff awards. This is the third year in a row that a member of the art history faculty has received a...
Current MA and doctoral students show accepted MA applicants through the CMA galleries. We had a full day of events, with a tour of Ingalls Library, lunch with the faculty, an Art Talk by Prof. Gertsman, the Julius Fund Lecture in Renaissance art by Dr. Lia Markey, and dinner...
Professors Erin Benay and Maggie Popkin were awarded full-year fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, as announced in December 2016. These highly competitive awards will enable each of them to take a year off from teaching and service to work full time on their new book projects. ...
Erin Benay, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, received a 2017-18 fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies to support research and travel for her third book project, tentatively titled Italy by Way of India: Routes of Devotional Knowledge in the Early Modern Period. The project...
Dr. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, CWRU PhD 2007, will take up her duties in October as the new Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Senior Curator of European Arts at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. In this endowed position she will lead the European Arts Division,...