College of Arts and Sciences

The episcopal city of Hildesheim in northern Germany was one of the most important centers in Central Europe between about 1000 and 1250. It was home to a host of extraordinary medieval objects, such as the bronze doors of the cathedral, as well as innovative buildings, such as the...

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Congratulations to this year’s Friends of Art Awards winners, Reed O’Mara, Mackenzie Clark, and Bing Wang!

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Congratulations to Ben Levy, who has been appointed an officer of The Association of Print Scholars! APS is one of the primary professional organizations that encourage innovative and interdisciplinary methodological approaches to the history of printmaking. Ben will be responsible for developing and implementing programming for his 2021-2022 term....

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Congrats to Reed who will be giving two conference papers this spring. One, "The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints," will be presented at the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting, Saturday, 17 April, at 11:00 EDT. Another, "'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but...

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Click here to watch a recording of Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte's lecture, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Artistic Effacement and Erasure in the Age of Revolutions." The Julius Fund Lecture in Early Modern Art was held on Friday, Dec. 4.

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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!

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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...

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