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...
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. ...
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,...
Congratulations to Elina Gertsman, who was promoted to the rank of Professor, effective July 1, 2016. She came to CWRU as Assistant Professor in fall 2010, and earned tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in 2014.
Professor Gertsman is the author of The Dance of Death in...
Elina Gertsman, Associate Professor in Medieval Art, received a Faculty Research Travel Grant from the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU. She used it this summer to travel to northern Europe in order to work at several libraries, museums, and archives, and finish research for her next monograph...
UCITE, the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) at Case Western Reserve University, has named Assistant Professor Erin Benay one of its five Glennan Fellows for 2016-17. Named after T. Keith Glennan, former President of Case Institute of Technology (1947-1965), the program recognizes tenure track faculty...
Collections: Celebration
42nd Annual Cleveland Symposium
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Friday, October 28, 2016
The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Graduate Program in Art History and Museum Studies is proud to announce its 2016 Annual Symposium: Collections: Celebration. Dealing broadly with topics of patronage, art as a...
Henry Adams will be on Leave of Absence for the 2016-17 academic year. He has an appointment as a Fellow of the College of the Environment and Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University where he will teach one course, “The Experience of American Landscape,” participate in a...