Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership at CWRU/CMA, has published the article “On the Aesthetic of Diagrams in Byzantine Art,” in the July issue of Speculum, the flagship journal of the Medieval Academy of America. Bringing many new primary sources to light, the essay argues for the importance of diagrams in understanding the formal qualities of Byzantine icons.
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The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University is delighted to remind researchers that as of 1 July 2023, access to their online database will become free to all users. The database can be consulted at https://theindex.princeton.edu/. The Index will offer several training sessions to introduce the database to those...
Congratulations to Sam Truman, who has been awarded both the Samuel H. Kress History of Art Institutional Fellowship and the Chateaubriand Fellowship!
Laura and Cecily are honored and elated to be the recipients of 2023 travel grants. Laura was awarded a Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Grant, and Cecily was awarded one of this year’s Student Research Grants from the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).
Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership, received a contract for Volume 4 in the series “Sources in Byzantine Art History,” entitled The Visual Culture of Late Byzantium and the Early Modern Orthodox World (c.1350-c.1669) (Cambridge University Press, 2028).
Congratulations to Dr. Elina Gertsman, professor of medieval art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, on winning the 2023 Otto Gründler prize for The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books. Given annually, the Otto Gründler Book Prize recognizes a monograph on a medieval subject that the selection committee determines has made an outstanding contribution to the field. Authors from any country are eligible, and nominations are accepted from readers and publishers. This is not the first honor for The Absent Image, which received the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from College Art Association in 2022.
The medieval art program was featured in the headline news in the Daily! The article spotlights the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS) and the Immersive Realms app. You can read it here.
https://thedaily.case.edu/microsoft-hololens-puts-medieval-objects-into-the-hands-of-student-researchers/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=thedaily_research
From May 1 to May 4, Simona Di Nepi, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, visited Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) as the first Short-Term Mellon Visiting Fellow. Dr. Di Nepi participated in an archival workshop at the Western Reserve Historical...
The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to announce the publication of Collectors, Commissioners, Curators, which just appeared in the Early Drama, Art, and Music series (De Gruyter / Medieval Institute Press). Edited by Elina Gertsman, this volume celebrates the career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Authors offer insights into curatorial practices as well as perspectives on the histories of collecting and display by highlighting key objects under their care in some of the most illustrious medieval art collections in North America and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Getty.
Congratulations to Reed O'Mara who passed her doctoral exam with flying colors! The committee was extremely impressed with Reed's command of both subjects -- medieval Hebrew manuscripts and German Gothic sculpture -- and not at all surprised by her ability to formulate a sophisticated and compelling argument for the...