This event will focus on Pepon Osorio, A Lifetime of Artistic Practice. It will take place in Gertner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art on April 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm.
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April 18 at 5:30 PM, Professor Roger Bagnall will give a lecture entitled “A Roman City in the Egyption Desert: Paintings, Potsherds, and Politics in the Dakhla Oasis” at CMA’s lecture hall.
Nikki DeLuca, a PhD student in medieval art, has been selected to receive the 2018 Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant from the Medieval Academy of America. Nikki’s dissertation, advised by Prof. Gertsman, tackles the subject of shadows in late medieval manuscripts. She was also selected to attend the Newberry Library’s French paleography workshop this summer. Congratulations to Nikki!
Prof. Elina Gertsman was chosen as a finalist for the 2018 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students at CWRU through advising and mentoring. In 2015, Prof. Gertsman won the Diekhoff Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching.
Kylie Fisher, doctoral student in early modern Italian art, has been awarded an Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship! This fellowship will enable Kylie to travel to London this summer to conduct an in-depth study of the British Museum’s exceptional holdings of sixteenth-century Italian prints as part of her dissertation research.
On Monday, March 26, 2018, there will be a special evening at the Linsalata Alumni Center. The evening is split into 2 parts and all are welcome. Reception to follow.
On Sunday, March 4, PhD candidate James Wehn joined a group of CWRU alumni from the Tampa area for a visit to the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art. Following brunch, James led the group on a private tour through the museum’s Renaissance and Baroque galleries, where he...
Come out this Wednesday, February 14, to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History! Elizabeth Bolman will be giving a lecture on “The Discovery and Conservation of the Red Monastery Church (late 5th c. C.E.), Upper Egypt” at 7:30 PM in the Murch Auditorium.
The Subversive Afterlife of Images: Implied, Ensuing Action in Medieval Jewish Visual Culture
In any given work of art, the view of the object at rest is a snapshot of the extant state of theological and political affairs surrounding a given image. But as soon as we notice that ensuing action is implied,...
Prof. Gertsman has been awarded the Medieval Academy’s inaugural Karen Gould Prize in Art History for Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (University Park: Penn State Press, 2015).
The Karen Gould Prize, established by an endowed gift from Lewis Gould in 2016, is awarded annually for a book or monograph in...
Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa has written a Blog Post on Elizabeth Bolman’s Red Monastery Project, in Forbes Magazine.
Now in production and due out this May, Professor Gertsman's new book, co-authored with one of the field's foremost historians, Barbara H. Rosenwein, weaves its narrative through the extraordinary array of medieval objects in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This gorgeous book encompasses the European, Byzantine, and...