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The Department is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Zamani, whose PhD In search of the Holy Grail : medieval tropes and the 'occultation of surrealism' in the work of André Breton, ca. 1928-1957 (2017) was supervised by Professor Alyce Mahon, has been appointed Artistic Director of the Museum Frider Burda, Baden Baden (www.museum-frieder-burda.…

The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. It is open to all University of Cambridge members, students, staff and alumni. A copy of the winning essay is deposited in the Manuscript Department of the University Library. More information about the prize can be found he…

Muir, who completed the History of Art Tripos in 2014 and recently passed her PhD (a CDA with the National Gallery and Durham University), will be working on the Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition. 

Lord Parkinson gave the keynote speech at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Award (IAA) policy meeting.View the full transcript of the speech here: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/arts-heritage-minister-lord-parkinsons-speech-to-the-arts-and-humanities-research-council

Dr Noel (Will) was a distinguished alumnus of the Department, and was John T. Maltsberger III '55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University at the time of his death.A graduate of Downing College, Will went on to PhD study with Professor George Henderson, graduating in 1992. A medievalist, his research and public…

Dr Aslet’s thesis is entitled: ‘James Gibbs’s Early Career: The Formation of a European Architect’ and was supervised by Dr Frank Salmon.’

A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmakingThis incisive account of modernism’s postwar development examines how painters, such as Joan Mitchell, Barnett Newman, and Rose Piper, invoked tradition in order to respond to, participate in, and disrupt the histories o…

The 12th Annual Cambridge-Columbia Symposium took place in New York on Friday 5th April, thanks to the generosity of sponsor Dr John Weber and the support of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology.   The event saw six Cambridge PhD students present papers alongside six counterparts from Columbia on the theme of 'Art, Arch…

The lightweight Boat Race is held the day before the openweight boat races on the same course from Putney to Mortlake. The lightweight crew have trained alongside the openweights since August 2023.Charlotte Macey will be joined in the women's lightweight crew by Georgia Gollogly from the Department of Architecture.For more information visit: https:…

Kenneth Coplan is joined in the squad by Sean Hayes, a PhD student from the Department of Architecture.The 169th Men's Race will take place on Saturday 30th March from 15:46 between Putney and Mortlake.For more information visit: https://www.theboatrace.org/squads/cambridge-mens-2024#

Dr Markou will take up his position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology on 2 January 2024 and we wish him well in his new role. Dr Markou read Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, before going to the University of Warwick, where he took an MA on “V…

Catherine the Great’s passion for the visual arts is well known, but this is the first study of the women artists who benefited from her patronage. Professor Blakesley brings together visual and documentary sources to deepen our understanding of what it meant to be a woman artist in the 18th century – and complicate our sense of the reign of the Ru…

Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle AgesSpeaker: Dr Krisztina IlkoQueens’ College, University of CambridgeWednesday 8 November 2023, 9am-10.30am GMT
World History Seminar, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Online via Zoom

How could the game of chess facilitate cross-cultural interaction? To perambulate this question, this talk explores mediev…

The conference took place at Jesus College on October 14th 2023.Over the past quarter century, the study of the ‘Venetian Mediterranean’ – tracking the broader field of Early Modern Mediterranean Studies – has grown into a thriving interdisciplinary area of research. The older emphasis on the Venetian maritime territories – or Stato da Mar, in cont…

Read the full article here: https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2023/10/12/women-artists-together-by-amy-tobin/