Reed O'Mara will be teaching ARTH 101: Pyramids to Pagodas this summer. See the poster for the course description and more information.
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In Our DNA: Arts, Activism and Black Cleveland welcomed over 60 people for yesterday's event with artist-activist Amanda D. King.
Below are links to the event recording and other resources. Please visit the Schubert Center website (https://case.edu/schubertcenter/events/) for information about additional events this semester, including Anti-racist, Inclusive, and Resilient: Pitfalls,...
International Center of Medieval Art presents another installment of Mining the Collection! Professor Elina Gertsman and Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art, will join forces to present two fascinating sculptures from the museum’s collection.
Please join us Thursday, March 4th at 11:00 am ET for...
Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University, will be presenting a lecture titled, "Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race," on March 3rd at 7:15 pm EST. Click here to register.
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities has announced that the recipient of its 2020-21 Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities is Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and Professor of Art History. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in a field of humanistic scholarship. ...
Congratulations to Sam Truman whose paper “Defying Decay: The Ghostly Body and Identity in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame” was accepted into UC Santa Barbara’s 45th Annual Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium, “Haunting the Canon: The Super-phenomena in Art”! The conference will be held over Zoom...
Fabio Barry will be presenting a lecture titled "Living Like Gods: The Late Antique Hall from the Domus outside the Porta Marina, Ostia," on February 11 at 4:00 p.m. EST. The event will be streamed on Zoom Webinar and our Facebook page. Click here to register.
Lauryn Smith, PhD candidate specializing in early modern art, has been awarded a competitive pre-doctoral fellowship from the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) to conduct dissertation research in Germany. Her dissertation examines the intimate cabinets of Amalia van Solms-Braunfels, Princess of Orange (1602-1675), to illuminate instances of innovation and...
Access to the Index of Medieval Art database at Princeton is now provided by Kelvin Smith Library. A link to the database can be found in the Art History and Art database folder on the library's website. Students working remotely can access the resource by first logging into the...
Factum Foundation has initiated a collaboration with a team from the Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Art History and Art Departments at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
The goal is to apply machine learning methods to surface profilometry images of paintings in order to attribute stylistic components...
Prof. Gertsman is delighted to announce the publication of her article, “Playthings: Ivory on Ivory” in Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, edited by Elizabeth Lapina & Vanina Kopp. The article features two Cleveland objects, the celebrated ivory mirror (1940.1200) and the ivory casket with the scenes of romances (1978.39.b). To learn more about the book, click here. To get a copy of the article, please email Prof. Gertsman directly.
Watch a recording of Professor Bolman’s recent lecture, titled “The Red Monastery Church (Upper Egypt): Its Significance and Conservation,” here.