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A newly commissioned artwork by alumna Sophie Mei Birkin has been unveiled at Trinity Hall

27 April 2023

The artwork, entitled T he Willow will Submerge in Time contains plants and soil from the River Cam mounted in a Lightbox and has now taken pride of place in the Dining Hall of Trinity Hall alongside more traditional portraiture. Sophie Mei Birkin was a BA History of Art student in the Department from 2014-17 and graduated...

Elain Harwood 1958-2023

27 April 2023

It was with great sadness and real shock that we learnt of the death last week of Elain Harwood. Elain was a tireless advocate for twentieth-century architecture. Her career with English Heritage and later Historic England was largely devoted to identifying, researching, publishing and protecting the best of modern...

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Christina J. Faraday on the publication of her new book 'Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England'

25 April 2023

The book is published by Yale University Press, for more information visit: https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/tudor-liveliness/?k=9781913107376 To see a trailer for the book visit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrdKmkkIws_/

The Department of History of Art is delighted to announce that the 2023 Slade Lecture in Fine Art with Professor Kavita Singh, 'Endless Prospects: View From a Terrace in 18th-Century Lucknow', will take place on Friday 28th of April (online via Zoom)

24 April 2023

About the lecture: My Slade Lecture series intended to take up different aspects of Mughal painting and to play with method differently in each. In this special lecture, I bring the background into the foreground as I turn to a series of 18th century paintings that are marked by a keen and even vertiginous interest in...

Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24

13 March 2023

Cambridge Visual Culture invites applications for their 23/24 programme of Visiting Research Fellowships in Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. The programme aims to renew and catalyse the study of ‘the visual’ at Cambridge by bringing fresh voices and approaches to the University, and to extend visual culture...

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Luming Guan on being awarded the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2023-24 History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowship

22 February 2023

To find out more visit: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/fellowships/types-of-fellowships

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Anneke de Bont on being awarded the British Museum’s prestigious Michael Bromberg Fellowship 2023 for printmaking techniques and print history

22 February 2023

To find out more visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/prints-and-drawings/fellowships

The Department would like to congratulate former PhD student Dr Amandine Didouan on being awarded the 2022 Nuncius Prize for the best original essay related to material and visual history of science, technology and medicine in any period

22 February 2023

The essay, “ To draw a body, human or beast, one must study anatomy”. The Overlooked Influence of a Sixteenth-Century Equine Anatomy Illustration on Early Modern Artists , will be published soon in the journal Nuncius .

Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24

15 February 2023

Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022)

12 December 2022

It is with great sadness that the Department of History of Art announces the death of Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022). Duncan was a leading authority on modern British art, and a much-loved teacher and colleague. A graduate of English from Clare College Cambridge, he began his career as an...

A newly commissioned artwork by alumna Sophie Mei Birkin has been unveiled at Trinity Hall

Elain Harwood 1958-2023

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Christina J. Faraday on the publication of her new book 'Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England'

The Department of History of Art is delighted to announce that the 2023 Slade Lecture in Fine Art with Professor Kavita Singh, 'Endless Prospects: View From a Terrace in 18th-Century Lucknow', will take place on Friday 28th of April (online via Zoom)

Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Luming Guan on being awarded the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2023-24 History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowship

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Anneke de Bont on being awarded the British Museum’s prestigious Michael Bromberg Fellowship 2023 for printmaking techniques and print history

The Department would like to congratulate former PhD student Dr Amandine Didouan on being awarded the 2022 Nuncius Prize for the best original essay related to material and visual history of science, technology and medicine in any period

Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24

Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022)

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