College of Arts and Sciences

On April 26, Claudia Brittenham (University of Chicago) will deliver the annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities, titled "Seeing Unseen Art in Ancient Mesoamerica." Many works of Mesoamerican sculpture were difficult to see in their original contexts. For over three thousand years, from the earliest moments...

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Please join Professor Elina Gertsman at the Case Western Reserve University’s Interactive Commons Fellows Showcase on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023. This open house-style event will include HoloLens demonstrations and is scheduled from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Tinkham Veale Ballrooms B & C. Attendees will have the...

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On April 28, Kimberly Cassibry will give a talk entitled "A Colonial Monument: Remembering an Ancient Triumphal Arch in France." Current debates about imperialism, commemoration, and cultural heritage have profound implications for ancient art history. This talk focuses on a triumphal arch constructed around 20 BCE in a Roman...

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A sensational exhibition of medieval alabaster sculptures, curated by Gerhard Lutz, opened yesterday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At the core of the show is the CMA's masterpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint Jerome and the Lion, produced for the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, depicting a...

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Photographs in Ink is in its final weeks at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Guest curated by CWRU doctoral candidate Benjamin Levy, the exhibition looks at the rich history behind the photographs that have filled our daily life for over a century. The works included in the show trace how...

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Last week Alex Kaczenski, Marina Savchenkova, Sam Truman, Angie Verduci, and MA program alumna Mia Hafer reunited at the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies held at Harvard University. In addition to attending sessions and keynote lectures, they made medieval pilgrim badges, bound manuscripts, and took in the sights of Boston. A special...

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Listen here for the latest podcast to delve into Elina Gertsman's and Barbara Rosenwein's The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which explores material culture from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds through the artefacts in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The podcast was put together by the Medieval History division of the...

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Congratulations to Dr. Angie Verduci, who defended her fantastic dissertation on late medieval Triumph of Death murals with great enthusiasm and aplomb! Her committee members (Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor Elizabeth S. Bolman, Dr. Gerhard Lutz, and Professor David Rothenberg) were extremely impressed with the superb quality of this dissertation,...

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