Join us for a lecture by Dr. Ananda Cohen, one of the leading experts on Colonial Latin American Art, on Friday, Dec. 4, at 3:00! Register here.
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All six lectures / discussions drawn from medieval Jewish art seminar have been uploaded here, and are available to anyone with the CWRU email account. Please note that we were treated to two lectures by Prof. Diane Wolfthal: one on late medieval Yiddish manuscripts and another on the lives and afterlives of the Houston Mahzor!
ARTH 350/450, Wednesdays, 7:00pm–9:30pm
Dominique DeLuca, PhD
In this course we will examine medieval romance imagery with special focus on illuminated manuscripts produced from the 12th through the 15th centuries in northern Europe. We will study depictions of historical people and events, mythological tales, and episodes from popular poetry and literature...
We had a fantastic crowd of attendees for Robert Mills’s Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art! If you missed it, you can watch it here by clicking on “Learn More.”
Scent and Sense: Olfaction and Memory in Medieval Material Culture (sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art)
Although we are used to thinking that the sense of sight reigned supreme in the Middle Ages, medieval scholars of all stripes were quite obsessively preoccupied with questions of olfaction. This session will explore the multivalent relationships between objects, smells, and memory, especially as they existed in the later Middle Ages.
Abstracts, one page in length, should be sent to Elina Gertsman (exg152@case.edu) by 10.15, 2020
Click here to read an article from The Daily about Professor Maggie Popkin's recent award of the 2020-2021 Rome Prize!
Congratulations to Reed, whose peer-reviewed article, “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon,” was just published in Religions, as part of the Special Issue Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions, guest-edited by Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Rhie Mace. Read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274/pdf
Huge congratulations to Angie Verduci for receiving the ICMA Student Travel Grant, which will support research for her dissertation on Northern Italian “Triumph of Death” imagery. Only three such awards are annually given.
Congratulations to Reed on receiving the Graduate Student Appreciation Award for the second year in a row! Reed’s nominator described her as a consummate student — active, engaged, kind, sharply intelligent, extremely personable — with a zeal for learning and discovery.
The Department is delighted to announce the 2020 Friends of Art Award Winners: Mia Hafer (Best MA Paper Award), Alex Kaczenski (Best PhD Paper Award), and Kylie Fisher (Best Overall Performance by a PhD Student Award). WELL DONE!
Congratulations to Angie Verduci, 3rd-year PhD student, and Mia Hafer, 2nd-year MA student, whose papers were accepted into the 37th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium to be held in Tallahassee, Florida, on March 27 and 28, 2020!
Congratulations to Reed O’Mara and Benjamin Levy for receiving competitive scholarships to attend courses at the Rare Book School!