Congratulations to MA candidate Rebekah will work with public art nonprofit LAND Studio to develop interpretative content and community-based curatorial strategies for LAND's fabulous app The City is Our Museum. Rebekah is a Barbato Fellow and focuses on early modern art history with Professor Benay. She graduated from Kenyon...
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Last week, students from Professor Elina Gertsman's seminar on medieval materiality put their studies into practice, when they examined medieval materials first-hand during a visit to the CMA's Art Study Room. Lead by Dr. Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, the students were thrilled to interact...
Congratulations to Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership at CWRU/CMA, who has been awarded an Olivia Remie Constable award from the Medieval Academy of America! Justin will use the award to visit the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University and to purchase images for his book manuscript, The...
A sensational exhibition of medieval alabaster sculptures, curated by Gerhard Lutz, opened yesterday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At the core of the show is the CMA's masterpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint Jerome and the Lion, produced for the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, depicting a...
Photographs in Ink is in its final weeks at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Guest curated by CWRU doctoral candidate Benjamin Levy, the exhibition looks at the rich history behind the photographs that have filled our daily life for over a century. The works included in the show trace how...
Last week Alex Kaczenski, Marina Savchenkova, Sam Truman, Angie Verduci, and MA program alumna Mia Hafer reunited at the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies held at Harvard University. In addition to attending sessions and keynote lectures, they made medieval pilgrim badges, bound manuscripts, and took in the sights of Boston. A special...
Professor Andrea Rager will be offering ARTH 274 Nineteenth-Century European Art as a may session course this year. The course will take place on May 15-June 2 (M-F 12-2:30) and will be offered remotely with synchronous and asynchronous components, M-F 12-2:30. Registration for the summer session opens on April...
Listen here for the latest podcast to delve into Elina Gertsman's and Barbara Rosenwein's The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which explores material culture from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds through the artefacts in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The podcast was put together by the Medieval History division of the...
Congratulations to Dr. Angie Verduci, who defended her fantastic dissertation on late medieval Triumph of Death murals with great enthusiasm and aplomb! Her committee members (Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor Elizabeth S. Bolman, Dr. Gerhard Lutz, and Professor David Rothenberg) were extremely impressed with the superb quality of this dissertation,...
For the second year in a row, graduate medievalists stole the show at the MAA's annual meeting, earning themselves, to borrow from the meeting's attendees, "a legendary status." On Friday, March 24, as Professor Gertsman was being given the award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies, signs and pompoms...
Congratulations to Professor Henry Adams on his newest book, Lino Tagliapietra: Sculptor in Glass (Phaidon, 2023)! Lino Tagliapietra has been described as the world’s greatest glassblower, a figure born from the five-hundred-year-old culture of Venetian glass, but one who also revolutionized glass as a discipline, inventing new techniques to...
The ancient Roman emperor Nero often figures today as a stock embodiment of an abominable ruler. In the late Middle Ages, Nero also was deplored, but for crimes long forgotten in modern accounts—including a bizarre impregnation, orchestrated by a team of doctors. Please join us on March 1 at...