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The essay,“To draw a body, human or beast, one must study anatomy”. The Overlooked Influence of a Sixteenth-Century Equine Anatomy Illustration on Early Modern Artists,will be published soon in the journal Nuncius.

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 studies into specialisms an…

It is with great sadness that the Department of History of Art announces the death of Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022). Duncan was a leading authority on modern British art, and a much-loved teacher and colleague. A graduate of English from Clare College Cambridge, he began his career as an Assistant Keeper in the Depa…

Jennifer will take up her duties as Director of the Barber Institute and Barber Professor of Fine Arts on 9 January 2023 and we wish her well in her new role.Jennifer began her curatorial career at the V&A before becoming Assistant Curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain in 2010. She moved the University of Cambridge as Head of Collections, P…

The programme aims to renew and catalyse the study of ‘the visual’ by bringing fresh voices and approaches to the University and to extend visual culture studies into specialisms and fields which are under-represented in our research communities. Dr Abbas Akbari (University of Kashan) - Islamic lustrewareDr Anna Reid (Princeton University) - Britis…

The conference took place at Downing College, Cambridge on September 8th 2022. For more information visit: https://csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/conference-diverse-modernities/

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For more information visit: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fellowships-and-grants/awarded/spring-2022/page/1

Kareem Estefan and Xin Peng will be joining the Centre for Film and Screen in September 2022 and will also both make History of Art their departmental home. These appointments result from and respond to the growth of postgraduate study in Film and Screen Studies at Cambridge over the past several years. Kareem’s and Xin’s research and teaching will…

The book, published in Rome by Officina Editore (for the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura [CISA], Vicenza), 2021), was the outcome of Professor Howard's Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship (2017-19). An exhibition called Acqua, terra, fuoco, based on the research, will open at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza in November 2022.

Krisztina's JRF project  ‘The Pawns of History: A New Approach towards the Global Middle Ages’ will use chess to find a tangible approach to the global medieval past.For more information visit: https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/dr-krisztina-ilko

★★★★★ "This exhibition leaves you in awe of Hockney" — The Guardian★★★★ "A blooming good show" — The Telegraph★★★★ "Art history and scientific discovery encounter one another on equal terms" — The TimesOne of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fi…

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art condemns the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, affirms democratic Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and joins with the Vice Chancellor in encouraging our community to assist through donations to support Ukrainians at this time of crisis and to support Ukrainian and…