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This spring, the UK’s largest art history conference is coming to Cambridge’s Department of History of Art for the first time. The University is hosting the Association for Art History's annual forum, a prestigious event that’s also one of the largest of its kind in the world. The three-day gathering is set to be even more...

Each lecture will depart from a close reading of one work of art or one iconic image to explore a major aspect of human world picturing as it has been understood and transformed by the visual thinking, emotional intelligence and conceptual analysis of a particular artist or group of artists. The historical trajectory will...

Emeritus Professor Paul Binski has been shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion , a distinguished annual award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Established in 1959, the Medallion recognises an outstanding monograph that significantly advances the study or understanding of...

Matthew comes to Cambridge from Queen Mary University of London where he taught the architecture and history of the capital for 6 years. Prior to that, he held positions at The University of New Mexico, and at Oxford. He is a historian of British architecture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and his research is...