Department of History of Art
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On Wednesday 17th February, Dr Laura Slater will give a talk on 'Art, Architecture and Reputation Management in Early Fourteenth-Century England' at the Research Forum of The Courtauld Institute - Read More…
The Department would like to congratulate former undergraduate student Alexander Röstel on his recent appointment as Curator of Italian Painting at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden - Read More…
The Department would like to congratulate Lily Indira Kirkby on being awarded an Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Award for Innovative Practice by the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning - Read More…
The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of distinguished international scholars to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art for the next five years - Read More…
Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop, Affiliated Lecturer and TA in the Department of History of Art, and Professor Nicholas Thomas, Director of the MAA and Fellow of Trinity College, have been awarded £10.000 from the Cambridge Research and Collections Programme - Read More…
Professor Frances Spalding, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, has been awarded an Emeritus Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust - Read More…
The Department is delighted to announce that Professor Caroline van Eck has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy - Read More…
We are proud to announce that our BA in History of Art has again been ranked first in the Complete University Guide 2021 - Read More…
New book by Dr Alyce Mahon 'The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde' has been published by Princeton University Press - Read More…
Sir Nicholas Penny (Slade Professor in Fine Art for 2019-20) will be delivering three online lectures at the Warburg Institute - Read More…
The Department congratulates Professor Caroline van Eck on her election to the Academia Europaea - Read More…
Alumnus David Zagoury (PhD, 2019) has been was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal 2019 for his research on the notion of fantasia in Italian art and art theory of the sixteenth century. The Department congratulates him on this achievement - Read More…
The Department would like congratulate Dr Christina Faraday who has been awarded a Research Fellowship with Gonville and Caius College - Read More…
The Department would like to congratulate student Giorgia Brigatti on winning the Association for Art History’s 2019 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for her essay ‘Revolutions through the eyes of Shirin Neshat’ - Read More…
Gelebte Träume – Künstlerinnen des Surrealismus, a documentary on women surrealists for ARTE by Maria Anna Tappeiner, featuring Dr Alyce Mahon - Read More…
Due to the ongoing coronavirus situation, the Binski Symposium scheduled for Tuesday 17th March has been postponed, and will be rescheduled for a later date - Read More…
The Department is delighted to announce that Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her new project 'Russia, Empire and the Baltic Imagination' - Read More…
The Department regrets to announce the death of Professor Paul Crossley, a graduate of the Department and Slade Professor in Cambridge University, 2011-12 - Read More…
The Lent Term 2020 Professor of Fine Art is Dr Nicholas Penny. His lecture series is entitled Avatars of Antiquity: Premise and Practice in European Painting and Sculpture 1500 – 2000 - Read More…
The Cambridge Faculty of Architecture & History of Art invites applications to the 2020 round of the Leverhulme Trust early Career Fellowship competition - Read More…
