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Join us for a facsimile viewing session on Wednesday, January 29, at 11 am! Listen to graduate students and faculty talk about illuminated manuscripts — poetry collections, books of hours, festival books — written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Middle High German. All are welcome!
January brings us three Art Talks presented by the department’s graduate students! All will be held in the Ingalls Seminar Room.
On January 23, at 1 PM, join us for two medieval art papers! Sara Frisbie will present “One God, One Light, One Cause’: Materialities of Stained Glass in an Auvergnois The Trinity” in preparation for the Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Newberry Library, immediately followed by Cecily Hughes’s grant-winning paper, “The Measure of a Saint: Size, Landscape, and Meaning in St. Olaf Pilgrim Badges,” which she will deliver at the College Art Association’s conference in February. Also at the CAA conference, Jillian Kruse will present “Collective Labors: Collaboration as Motif and Method in Pissarro’s Prints,” and her Art Talk is scheduled for January 27 at 11 AM. We hope you can attend all three!
Join Prof. Benay and CWRU Law School Alumn, artist, and founder of the nonprofit Shooting Without Bullets, Amanda D. King, for an Intergenerational Lunch at ThirdSpace Action Lab on January 31! The conversation will center around the legacy of the Karamu Artists Inc., a group of Black printmakers who...
Congratulations to Cecily who was awarded the Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art (HGSCEA) to present her paper, “The Measure of a Saint: Size, Landscape, and Meaning in St. Olaf Pilgrim Badges,” at the College Art Association’s annual conference this coming February!
We look forward to seeing you at another curatorial walk-through of the Creation and (Re)Birth exhibition with Prof. Elina Gertsman, Dr. Gerhard Lutz, and Dr. Sonya Rhie Mace on January 22 at 1 o'clock. Please meet in Gallery 115. Link to the exhibition description here.
Join Prof. Benay and fellow panelists Prof. Aviva Rothman (History) and Dr. Emily Peters (CMA Curator of Prints and Drawings) for a panel discussion on Leonardo da Vinci next Tuesday, January 14 at the Fine Arts Association! Reserve your free tickets below.
Leonardo da Vinci Screening | PBS Western Reserve.
Congratulations, everyone, on the fabulous prospectus-cum-QP session on Friday! Arielle Suskin, Clara Pinchbeck, and Claire Sumner presented their dissertation research, while MA students Sarah Frisbie, Sara Miller, Darren Helton, Megan Alves, and Sydney Collins took us on a dizzying visual tour that ranged from contemporary cyborg theory to medieval theology of light, and from ancient Etruria to Byzantine Rus. Pictured here with Prof. Gertsman wielding the Chicken of Power and Timekeeping.
Professor Popkin appears as a guest on the podcast Byzantium & Friends to discuss her book, Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2022). The podcast features conversations with experts in the history of Byzantium and surrounding fields, hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor of Classics...
The Department of Art History’s Fall Undergraduate Research Showcase is happening this Friday! The showcase will include presentations from three seniors in Art History, who will share their capstone research projects from this semester.
We were delighted to host the curatorial talk for the Creation and (Re)Birth Exhibition on November 14 to a full house! Co-curators Prof. Elina Gertsman and Dr. Gerhard Lutz talked about the concept of the exhibition and then focused on specific objects, with the all-important participation from Dr. Sonya Rhee Mace and three PhD students — Zoe Appleby, Rebekkah Hart, and Cecily Hughes. The repeat of the event, this time for the university audience, will take place on January 22.
We are delighted to announce the publication of Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, co-edited by Prof. Elizabeth S. Bolmanwith Scott F. Johnson and Jack Tannous! Although not yet available in hardcopy in the US, it can be accessed in its digital version here.
Worlds of Byzantium offers a new...