Join us for a CV workshop with Prof. Gertsman on December 11 at 1:30 EST! Come for advice, stay for destructive fun! Click on “Learn more” for the Zoom link.
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Read the interview with Lee Warshawsky, the Co-Director of Friends of Art, here.
The Friends of Art is a volunteer organization that seeks to promote and support the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University through advocacy and educational activities. The group offers opportunities to attend...
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.
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.
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!
Please join us for our annual QP and prospectus presentations on November 20th at 1 pm! Angie Verduci will first speak about her dissertation research, focused on late medieval Triumph of Death murals in northern Italy; Annapoorna Moore will follow with a discussion of the gorgeous fourteenth-century silver belt...
Read Prof. Benay's recent article about collaboration in the Humanities, published by the H-Net Book Channel forum, Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications! Click here to read the article.
Last Friday, the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University hosted the 46th Annual Cleveland Symposium, "Bodily Realities: Engaging the Discourse of Dis/Ability." Thank you to everyone who made this event possible! We are pleased to announce that a recording of the event, as well...
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...
ARTH 335/435
MWF 11:30-12:30
Meghan Strong, PhD
From millennia, the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Nubia developed alongside each other in the Nile Valley. This course will explore the distinct visual and material culture of these two neighbors but also examine the artistic implications of cross-cultural interaction in these regions. We will...
ARTH 341/441
T/TH 4:00–5:15
Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Rinpa is a style of Japanese art focused on abstracted natural motifs, often made with mineral
and metallic pigments as well as ink. Classical literature features in some Rinpa works.
Coined in the early 1900s, Rinpa means “Rin School,”...
Professor Bolman will be presenting a lecture hosted by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens!
The remarkable Red Monastery Church, located in the Egyptian desert, surprises us. It is not in a city, or even near one. What is it doing, in its isolated environment? The church is...