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  • Francesca Aimi: Domenico Veneziano in Context: Reassessing Florentine Visual Culture in the 1440s
  • Anneke de Bont: The Christian Epistemic Image in Northern European Print, c.1570–c.1700
  • Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism
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  • Blanche Darbord: Model King or Tyrant?: Alexander the Great in Manuscript Illumination and the Representation of Kingship in Plantagenet England (1154-1485)
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  • Sommer Hallquist: From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge
  • Ciaran Hervás: Sexology and the Avant-Garde: Photographing Queer Embodiment and Desire in Interwar Paris and Berlin
  • Alexander Kusztyk: Representations of Marble in Art from 1901 to 2023
  • Philip Muijtjens: ‘See and Understand’: Funerary Monuments, Vision, and Memory in Italy, ca.1300-1530
  • Ane Cornelia Pade: The Parisian Pleasure Gardens 1795-1815: Architectural appropriation and social negotiation in early postrevolutionary Paris
  • Kyoko Takemura: Re-evaluation of punch marks on early Italian paintings
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    • Francesca Aimi: Domenico Veneziano in Context: Reassessing Florentine Visual Culture in the 1440s
    • Anneke de Bont: The Christian Epistemic Image in Northern European Print, c.1570–c.1700
    • Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism
    • Medieval and Renaissance Visual Culture
    • Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art and Architecture
    • Helen Bremm: Surrealist Tempera Paintings in Mexico and the United States, c.1940–1970
    • Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory
    • Quaid Childers: Rococo Metalwork and Light
    • Blanche Darbord: Model King or Tyrant?: Alexander the Great in Manuscript Illumination and the Representation of Kingship in Plantagenet England (1154-1485)
    • Global Art
    • Sommer Hallquist: From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge
    • Ciaran Hervás: Sexology and the Avant-Garde: Photographing Queer Embodiment and Desire in Interwar Paris and Berlin
    • Alexander Kusztyk: Representations of Marble in Art from 1901 to 2023
    • Philip Muijtjens: ‘See and Understand’: Funerary Monuments, Vision, and Memory in Italy, ca.1300-1530
    • Ane Cornelia Pade: The Parisian Pleasure Gardens 1795-1815: Architectural appropriation and social negotiation in early postrevolutionary Paris
    • Kyoko Takemura: Re-evaluation of punch marks on early Italian paintings
    • Feminist Art Making Histories
    • Research Centres
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    • The Medieval Art Seminar Series
    • HoA Early Career Research Forum
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Department of History of Art

Join a global conversation about art’s history and meaning, in a Department where world-class research meets an inclusive, international approach to visual and material culture.

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CONFERENCE 2026: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Recasting Global Modernities and the Making of Shared Worlds: New Perspectives through Henry Moore

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10 Jul 2026

On 8 July, the Department of History of Art hosted a workshop on the artist Rosemary Mayer

Rosemary Meyer - Ghost of Scroope Terrace

2 Jul 2026

CONFERENCE 2026: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Recasting Global Modernities and the Making of Shared Worlds: New Perspectives through Henry Moore

25 Jun 2026

Applications now open £1,000 prize for research on South Netherlandish Art 1400–1800

Burlington Magazine Prize for Netherlandish Art Research

22 Jun 2026

Professor Amy Tobin to feature in new podcast 'Feminist Art Lives'

11 Jun 2026

New publication: 'Grassroots Artmaking' co-edited by Professor Amy Tobin

Grassroots Artmaking

29 May 2026

PhD Researcher Struan Bates Wins Prestigious King’s College Prize

Struan Bates

Department of History of Art

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