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Fellowships in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture

18 March 2013

Deadline for applications: 12pm 16 May 2013 Six-month or 12-month Fellowships to be held from January 2014 to September 2015. For more information click here .

New Publication by Professor Richard Marks

14 March 2013

Pindar Press has just published Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages by Professor Richard Marks. This comprises 31 fully illustrated articles encompassing historiography, stained glass, manuscript illumination, screen and wall painting, sculpture and funerary monuments written over the course of four decades...

Scroope Terrace Listed

23 January 2013

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport announced on 16 January that it has revised the list description for Scroope Terrace. The original terrace of 1839-64 had been listed as a building of special interest since 1972, along with the front railings, but the new list description adds the extension designed by Colin St...

The 2012-13 Slade Lectures in Fine Art will be given this term by Professor Gülru Necipoğlu.

17 January 2013

The Lecture Series is entitled Architecture of Empire: The Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals in a Comparative Perspective. Professor Necipoğlu has been the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Department of History of Art and Architecture in Harvard University...

Synergy funding for Cambridge Renaissance team

14 January 2013

A trio of Renaissance scholars from the University of Cambridge has been awarded over 2.3 million Euros by the European Research Council in order to launch a groundbreaking interdisciplinary project on ‘Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home’. In opposition to the enduring stereotype of the...

Graduate student Loyd Grossman has been elected to the Council of the British School at Rome

9 January 2013

Dr Frank Salmon was formerly a member of this distinguished council and Loyd Grossman has succeeded him in this capacity. The Department would like to extend its utmost congratulations to Loyd for his appointment.

New Director appointed for the Fitzwilliam Museum

18 December 2012

The University of Cambridge has appointed Tim Knox as new Director to succeed Timothy Potts at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Click here for more information on the appointment.

Professor Paul Joannides has collaborated with Tom Henry on a catalogue for a new exhibition on Raphael

27 November 2012

The exhibition is held at the Prado and the Louvre until January 14th and is devoted to Raphael's work under the Pontificate Leo X. The exhibition also includes the work of Raphael's most important pupils up until 1524. The catalogue has been published in English, French and Spanish.

Professor David Watkin is the winner of the $50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award for 2013

12 November 2012

The award is given by the University of Notre Dame to an individual who has supported traditional and classical architecture through writing, planning, and promotion. The Department would like to congratulate Professor Watkin on this award which is a tribute to the outstanding contribution he has made to classical...

Photographs of the University of Cambridge History of Art Graduate Conference 2012: ‘Beyond Borders: The Impact of Cultural Exchange in Art History’

5 November 2012

This two-day conference (10-11 May), which took place at the Sir Humphrey Cripps Theatre at Magdalene College, addressed cross-cultural influences within various art disciplines over a far-reaching geographical and chronological spectrum. The speakers were graduate students from all over the world, including some from our...

Fellowships in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture

New Publication by Professor Richard Marks

Scroope Terrace Listed

The 2012-13 Slade Lectures in Fine Art will be given this term by Professor Gülru Necipoğlu.

Synergy funding for Cambridge Renaissance team

Graduate student Loyd Grossman has been elected to the Council of the British School at Rome

New Director appointed for the Fitzwilliam Museum

Professor Paul Joannides has collaborated with Tom Henry on a catalogue for a new exhibition on Raphael

Professor David Watkin is the winner of the $50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award for 2013

Photographs of the University of Cambridge History of Art Graduate Conference 2012: ‘Beyond Borders: The Impact of Cultural Exchange in Art History’

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