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Unfolding the untold stories of an object d’art: a Research feature on the work of Dr Meredith Hale

2 June 2014

Art historian Dr Meredith Hale reveals that a 17th-century screen, commissioned by the Viceroy of Mexico for a palace designed to impress visitors with the immutability of Spanish rule, is a striking example of a transcultural work of art. In an article for the Burlington Magazine, she traces the many influences that went...

The History of Art Department Curatorial Competition 2014 was won by Julien Domercq with his submission entitled 'The Death of Captain Cook: Mythmaking in Print'

29 May 2014

Captain James Cook’s three voyages of discovery to the Pacific culminated in his death on 14 February 1779 in Hawaii. Very shortly after the news reached Europe, his death gripped the imagination of writers, poets and artists who saw in the account of the voyage, and in Cook’s tremendous achievements, the values of the...

The Department would like to congratulate Dr John Munns for having been awarded a Special Mention in the Teaching Excellence Award this year

29 April 2014

Over the Easter Break, students were invited to nominate lecturers, supervisors, and other staff who have been exemplary, engaging and inspiring teachers. Of the 192 nominations we received, Dr Munns’ nominations especially highlighted his innovative and engaging teaching style, his support for students, and his ability to...

'The Image of Venice: Fialetti's View and Sir Henry Wotton': a new book by Deborah Howard and Henrietta McBurney

23 April 2014

The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago. Signed and dated 1611, the painting is the work of a notable early seventeenth-...

Professorship of History of Art post announced

15 April 2014

The Board of Electors to the Professorship of History of Art invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up appointment on 1 January 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. For further information, please visit the University's main job site...

Former student Chloe Kroeter has been appointed postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Watts Gallery

1 April 2014

Chloe will be curating an exhibit and writing a book on the Gallery's collection of George Frederic Watts drawings.

Otto Saumarez Smith, current PhD student in the department, has been elected as Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford

31 March 2014

The Fellowship will last for four years from September 2014. The Department would like to congratulate him on this achievement .

Dr Alexander Marr has been awarded an ERC grant for a new project on the concept of Genius before Romanticism

28 March 2014

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Former student Elizabeth Upper (PhD, 2013) has been named the 2014 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association and a 2014 New Scholar of the Bibliographical Society of America

17 February 2014

Zac Rose, PhD Candidate in the History of Art, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation

10 February 2014

He will pursue twelve months of doctoral research at the Free University of Brussels as a member of the Culture, mobilité, territoire graduate group. His dissertation explores how the culturally diffuse “new” nations of nineteenth-century Europe were connected through mass-produced images collected by a wide public. By...

Unfolding the untold stories of an object d’art: a Research feature on the work of Dr Meredith Hale

The History of Art Department Curatorial Competition 2014 was won by Julien Domercq with his submission entitled 'The Death of Captain Cook: Mythmaking in Print'

The Department would like to congratulate Dr John Munns for having been awarded a Special Mention in the Teaching Excellence Award this year

'The Image of Venice: Fialetti's View and Sir Henry Wotton': a new book by Deborah Howard and Henrietta McBurney

Professorship of History of Art post announced

Former student Chloe Kroeter has been appointed postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Watts Gallery

Otto Saumarez Smith, current PhD student in the department, has been elected as Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford

Dr Alexander Marr has been awarded an ERC grant for a new project on the concept of Genius before Romanticism

Former student Elizabeth Upper (PhD, 2013) has been named the 2014 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association and a 2014 New Scholar of the Bibliographical Society of America

Zac Rose, PhD Candidate in the History of Art, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation

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