Please join us on Friday, November 13 at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the 2026 Cleveland Symposium! This year’s topic is “Wear: Indexing the Human Body.” Stay tuned for the full schedule.
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The focus of this talk is the extremely robust and innovative period of European art from approximately 1000-1200 we now call "Romanesque." Coined in the early nineteenth century, “Romanesque” is a term that privileged particular "Roman-like" aspects of architectural construction but did not begin to cover the regional breadth of the myriad artistic...
Congratulations to PhD candidates in medieval art Claudia Haines and Reed O’Mara on a splendid showing at this year’s Forum Kunst des Mittelalters in Bochum and Dortmund, Germany. Claudia presented work related to her dissertation on medieval medical manuscripts in a session organized by Reed, now on a Kress...
Please join us to celebrate the inaugural year of Global Medieval Studies at CWRU with a welcome reception and lighting talk by Professors Evelyn Adkins (Classics), Elina Gertsman (Art History), Rachel Kapelle and Tom Sawyer (English), and David Rothenberg (Music)! All are welcome!
Congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang for the publication of her article, "Uncredited Hands: Labour, Branding and Collaboration at William Pryor Floyd’s Victoria Photographic Gallery in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong," in the latest issue of the prestigious journal History of Photography! https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2026.2717662
Dr. Wang's article is adapted from her doctoral dissertation, "William Pryor Floyd: Art,...
Please join us on Friday, November 13 at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the 2026 Cleveland Symposium! This year’s topic is “Wear: Indexing the Human Body.” Stay tuned for the full schedule.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new program in Global Medieval Studies! Administered through the Department of Art History and Art in collaboration with Classics, English, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Music departments, the Graduate Certificate in Global Medieval Studies will offer students the opportunity to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary study of the medieval world. For questions, please contact Prof. Elina Gertsman, the program’s director, or visit our page. Click below for a peek at this semester’s events!
Minerals as medicinal substances and pigments? As primary ingredients for the healing arts and the pictorial arts? The long tradition of the illustrated medieval herbal demonstrates how the two domains were entangled in word and image. It is the focus of Prof. Brigitte Buettner’s talk, which also shows how this form of bookish knowledge about inorganic matter was translated into practice; how “simple medicines”—lapis lazuli, ceruse, coral, verdigris, and the like—found their way onto the shelves of the premodern apothecary shop.
We are delighted to share that doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse has accepted a position as Catalogue Raisonné Researcher at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute! Based in New York City, the WPI is a non-profit foundation working in collaboration with the Fonds WPI in Paris and dedicated to publishing digital catalogues...