Watch a recording of Professor Bolman’s recent lecture, titled “The Red Monastery Church (Upper Egypt): Its Significance and Conservation,” here.
Art and Life During a Time of Plague: Success Stories in the Department of Art History and Art
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
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...
Read Prof. Benay's recent article about collaboration in the Humanities, published by the H-Net Book Channel forum, Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications! Click here to read the article.
Last Friday, the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University hosted the 46th Annual Cleveland Symposium, "Bodily Realities: Engaging the Discourse of Dis/Ability." Thank you to everyone who made this event possible! We are pleased to announce that a recording of the event, as well...
ARTH 335/435
MWF 11:30-12:30
Meghan Strong, PhD
From millennia, the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Nubia developed alongside each other in the Nile Valley. This course will explore the distinct visual and material culture of these two neighbors but also examine the artistic implications of cross-cultural interaction in these regions. We will...
ARTH 341/441
T/TH 4:00–5:15
Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Rinpa is a style of Japanese art focused on abstracted natural motifs, often made with mineral
and metallic pigments as well as ink. Classical literature features in some Rinpa works.
Coined in the early 1900s, Rinpa means “Rin School,”...
Professor Bolman will be presenting a lecture hosted by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens!
The remarkable Red Monastery Church, located in the Egyptian desert, surprises us. It is not in a city, or even near one. What is it doing, in its isolated environment? The church is...