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Read more at: Dr Amy Tobin has major article on 'Candace Hill-Montgomery, Against Containment' published in Art History Journal

Dr Amy Tobin has major article on 'Candace Hill-Montgomery, Against Containment' published in Art History Journal

2 October 2023

The article was published in Art HistoryVolume 46, Issue 1 and can be read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8365.12709


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Will Aslet on being elected to the Scott Opler Fellowship in Renaissance Art and Architectural History at Worcester College, Oxford

The Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Will Aslet on being elected to the Scott Opler Fellowship in Renaissance Art and Architectural History at Worcester College, Oxford

31 July 2023

To find out more, visit: https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/scott-opler-fellowship-renaissance-art-and-architectural-history


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate Professor Deborah Howard on winning the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Deborah Howard on winning the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023

20 June 2023

Professor Deborah Howard has won the award for the project ' Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio '. All winners are now up for a Public Choice Award and voting is open here: https://vote.europanostra.org For more information about the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards visit...


Read more at: Announcing the 2023/24 CVC Visiting Research Fellows

Announcing the 2023/24 CVC Visiting Research Fellows

12 June 2023

With great pleasure, we announce the 23/24 cohort of Visiting Research Fellows as Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (Michaelmas 2023), Professor Carol Payne (Michaelmas 2023), Dr Elizabeth Emrich-Rougé (Lent 2024), and Kimberley Foster (Easter 2024). (Residency terms indicated). . These researchers will join us and departments...


Read more at: SADE. Freedom or Evil: an exhibition curated by Head of Department Professor Alyce Mahon has opened at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

SADE. Freedom or Evil: an exhibition curated by Head of Department Professor Alyce Mahon has opened at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

11 May 2023

Sade was a clandestine and censored writer who was imprisoned, but is now a classic author for French literature. He was acclaimed as a revolutionary who supported freedom, whilst arousing scandal and outrage. The exhibition looks at the stereotypes associated with his name and explores the aesthetic, philosophical and...


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

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...


Read more at: Elain Harwood 1958-2023

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...


Read more at: 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 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_/


Read more at: 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)

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...


Read more at: Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24

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...