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.
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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...
"The Digital Red Monastery Church: Open Access for Scholars and the Public, for Research and Teaching" receives the 2018 Medieval Academy Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize (Principal Investigator, Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve University). This project used laser technology not only to create an interactive 360-degree panorama of the triconch...
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1606–1607), in the Cleveland Museum of Art, marks a crucial turning point in the life and artistic development of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). One of seven Caravaggio paintings in US collections, and the only altarpiece, it exemplifies the influential tenebristic style the artist...
This 2018 Baker-Nord Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled “Thomas Benton, Jackson Pollock and the Secrets of El Greco” is led by Henry Adams. Come join us on Wednesday February 7, 2018 in the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom A. Free and open to the public.
The review provides a powerful endorsement of the kind of academic and curatorial collaboration exemplified by Professor Gertsman course, "Piety and Leisure in Late Medieval Europe." This was the first graduate seminar of its kind, made possible by the Mellon foundation, which was based on the extraordinary collection of...
On November 14, Prof. Steven Fine discussed the way Arch of Titus was seen and interpreted throughout history, from the Roman period to the present day. Dr. Fine’s ongoing exhibition at Yeshiva University features a true-to-life replica of the Spoils of Jerusalem relief from the Arch, made thanks to the three-dimensional and polychrome scanning done as part of the YU’s Arch of Titus Project in 2012.
Andrea Wolk Rager, the Jesse Hauk Shera Assistant Professor in art history, received a John S. Diekhoff Award in spring 2016, the second year in a row that a professor in art history has received this award. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Senate and School of Graduate Studies, the John...
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