Congratulations to undergraduate seniors, Maddy Fox and Vivian Lewis, whose papers have been accepted for the 2024 SUNY New Paltz Art History Symposium from a highly competitive pool. Maddy’s paper, “The Adoption of Aesthetics: Borrowing Byzantium and Looking West in the Russian Romanesque,” seeks to address and expand the notion of amalgamation between the Byzantine and European tradition in Slavic architecture during the 12th century. Vivian’s paper focuses on Madox Brown’s Cordelia Parting from her Sisters and discusses Pre-Raphaelite social commentary about Victorian values; in 2023 it won an award for the best undergraduate art history paper. The conference sessions will be held in April via Zoom.
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Please join us for the Julius Fund Lecture in Byzantine Art on March 22, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This year's speaker, Dr. Helen Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita in Byzantine Art, will discuss her decades of experience presenting Byzantine art to the public at the...
Congratulations to professors Elina Gertsman and Erin Benay, who have been selected as finalists for the 2023-2024 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring/Teaching. The award, created in 1978, recognizes exceptional contributions to graduate student education at CWRU through exemplary advising, teaching, and mentoring. Up to four...
On January 27th, CWRU graduate students and faculty joined Cleveland Museum of Art curators and conservators at the Cleveland Institute of Art to learn about champlevé enamel from Cleveland-based contemporary jeweler and enamelist Ariella Har-Even firsthand. This initiative was coordinated by Ariella and Reed O’Mara, a PhD candidate in...
This weekend, Rebekkah Hart, second-year PhD student in medieval art, presented a talk entitled “The Lithic and the Liquid in the Virgin’s Womb” at the 2024 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library. Her talk focuses on Tilman Riemenschneider’s The Virgin of the Annunciation (c....
GAMS is delighted to announce its schedule of exciting February events!
First, we will meet on Friday, Feb. 9 at 1:30 PM in Ingalls Library (Floor 2R of the Cleveland Museum of Art) to look at some amazing facsimiles of medieval manuscripts, including examples of Haggadahs, bestiaries, books of hours, Islamic manuscripts,...
Professor Maggie Popkin and doctoral candidates Madeline Newquist, Clara Pinchbeck, and Arielle Suskin attended the recent Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting in Chicago. Congratulations to Madeline, Clara, and Arielle, who each gave a superb and very well-received paper!
Throughout the Middle Ages, affluent women expressed their social and political power as well as their piety by commissioning luxurious art objects. Sam Truman, PhD student in medieval art, just published an article in the Getty’s News and Stories, where she explores images of these women in a broad variety of medieval manuscripts. Read it here!
Please save the date for a collaboration between Fuse: Museum to Studio Connections and Trobár on January 20th from 11:30am to 1:00pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. This will be a hands-on Muck About on medieval architectural drawing and geometry! This free event is open to all, but RSVPs are encouraged! See more details below and feel free to...
Fuse: Museum to Studio Connections is a group founded by Ariella Har-Even and me that aims to bring art historians, artists, and the institutions they work at together through workshops, collaborations, and close-looking sessions. As a part of our first series, we will be hosting an enameling workshop on January 27th, 2024...
We are delighted to announce that Wendy Rohm received this year's inaugural Outstanding Staff Award for her fantastic service to the Art History and Art and the Classics departments. Wendy was honored by the Interim Dean Lee Thompson and the College of Arts and Sciences at the end-of-year celebration held...
Our Favorite Thing for today is the CMA’s Sculpture of Christ and Saint John the Evangelist (c. 1300)! 🦅Tess Artis is a first year doctoral student studying medieval art with Professor Elina Gertsman.
“I love medieval devotional art because it was made to be loved. Today, we show our respect for this sculpture of Christ and Saint John the Evangelist (c. 1300) by preserving it behind a transparent barrier; we are close, yet removed. But we only need to look at the figures’ toes, some of which have been kissed, rubbed, and grabbed into obsolescence, to see that this object has been cherished more intimately.”