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Dr Donal Cooper has won the Art Book Prize 2014 for The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans and the Painting of the Basilica, co-authored with Dr Janet Robson.

16 February 2015

Published by Yale University Press and focused on the famous fresco cycle of the life of St Francis often attributed to Giotto, the book has been praised as a “lavishly illustrated and thought-provoking work of exemplary and accessible scholarship” (Daily Telegraph). The Art Book Prize, administered by the Authors’ Club...

Former Cambridge student Helen Hillyard has been selected to join the National Gallery Curatorial Traineeship Programme.

11 February 2015

Curatorial – The Art Fund Thanks to the generosity of the Art Fund , we are able to offer talented art historians the opportunity to gain invaluable skills and experience working with curators here at the Gallery and to contribute to projects in regional museums and galleries. As part of its National Programme , the...

Professor Paul Joannides, Emeritus Professor of Art History and Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of the Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum reveal the discovery of two Michelangelo bronzes

3 February 2015

Image: Detail of 'Nude bacchants riding panthers' The non-matching pair were attributed to Michelangelo when they appeared in the collection of Adolphe de Rothschild in the 19th century. But, since the statues are undocumented and unsigned this attribution was dismissed, over the last 120 years the bronzes have been...

Heffers Lecture: Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style.

20 January 2015

This year’s Heffers Lecture is entitled "Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style", the topic of Professor Binski’s recently published book. "Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style" is an eloquent and comprehensive guide to the decorated style in medieval architecture. A drinks reception and book...

The AHRC has awarded a £962,000 grant to the project ‘Making Visible: the Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society’.

12 January 2015

The project is led by Principal Investigator Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College) alongside Co-Investigators Dr Felicity Henderson (Exeter University) and Dr Alexander Marr (History of Art). Hosted at CRASSH, the project will explore the roles visual resources and practices played in the development and dissemination of...

Slade Lecture Series 2015 - 16 – Professor John E. Bowlt

15 December 2014

"Suddenly I forgot which comes first, 7 or 8": Making Sense of the Russian Avant-Garde The lectures will take place weekly at 5:00 pm on Tuesdays in Mill Lane, Lecture Room 3, Cambridge, starting on 13 October and ending on 1 December, 2015. The Slade Lectures in Fine Art will be given in the Michaelmas term 2015 by...

The Department is delighted to announce that current PhD student, Daniel Zamani, has been awarded a two-year Early Career Fellowship at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and will join its Department of Modern Art (1800-1945) in January 2015.

10 December 2014

We would like to congratulate Daniel on the success of his appointment. Estabished in 1815 as a civic foundation, the Städel is one of Germany's leading and best known art museums and widely renowned for its internationally acclaimed exhibitions programme. With more than 3,000 paintings, 600 sculptures, over 4,000...

Deborah Howard receives the award of the Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LittD) at University College Dublin.

4 December 2014

On Monday 1 st December Professor Deborah Howard received the award of the Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LittD) at University College Dublin. UCD awards honorary degrees to candidates who have attained outstanding distinction in their professional and creative fields including the arts, science, technology and industry...

Dr Luke Skrebowski has co-curated an extended series of public events at Raven Row gallery in London that mine the contested space between contemporary literature and art.

4 December 2014

Plastic Words 13 December 2014 to 30 January 2015 Organised by John Douglas Millar, David Musgrave, Luke Skrebowski, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams. Raven Row plays host for six weeks to a series of public events that mine the contested space between contemporary literature and art. Taking this space as a starting...

PhD student Richard Butler has been awarded The Hawksmoor Medal by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain for an essay on the Irish courthouse.

28 October 2014

The winner will receive an inscribed bronze medal featuring a relief portrait of Nicholas Hawksmoor based on the bust of the architect by John Cheere. The medal will be presented at the Society's Annual Lecture with a cash prize of £400. The winning essay will also be considered for publication in the Society's journal...

Dr Donal Cooper has won the Art Book Prize 2014 for The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans and the Painting of the Basilica, co-authored with Dr Janet Robson.

Former Cambridge student Helen Hillyard has been selected to join the National Gallery Curatorial Traineeship Programme.

Professor Paul Joannides, Emeritus Professor of Art History and Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of the Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum reveal the discovery of two Michelangelo bronzes

Heffers Lecture: Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style.

The AHRC has awarded a £962,000 grant to the project ‘Making Visible: the Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society’.

Slade Lecture Series 2015 - 16 – Professor John E. Bowlt

The Department is delighted to announce that current PhD student, Daniel Zamani, has been awarded a two-year Early Career Fellowship at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and will join its Department of Modern Art (1800-1945) in January 2015.

Deborah Howard receives the award of the Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LittD) at University College Dublin.

Dr Luke Skrebowski has co-curated an extended series of public events at Raven Row gallery in London that mine the contested space between contemporary literature and art.

PhD student Richard Butler has been awarded The Hawksmoor Medal by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain for an essay on the Irish courthouse.

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