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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...


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Luming Guan on being awarded the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2023-24 History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowship

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Luming Guan on being awarded the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2023-24 History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowship

22 February 2023

To find out more visit: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/fellowships/types-of-fellowships


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Anneke de Bont on being awarded the British Museum’s prestigious Michael Bromberg Fellowship 2023 for printmaking techniques and print history

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Anneke de Bont on being awarded the British Museum’s prestigious Michael Bromberg Fellowship 2023 for printmaking techniques and print history

22 February 2023

To find out more visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/prints-and-drawings/fellowships


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate former PhD student Dr Amandine Didouan on being awarded the 2022 Nuncius Prize for the best original essay related to material and visual history of science, technology and medicine in any period

The Department would like to congratulate former PhD student Dr Amandine Didouan on being awarded the 2022 Nuncius Prize for the best original essay related to material and visual history of science, technology and medicine in any period

22 February 2023

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 .


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

Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24

15 February 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...


Read more at: Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022)

Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022)

12 December 2022

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...


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate Dr Jennifer Powell on her appointment as the new Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Barber Professor of Fine Arts.

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Jennifer Powell on her appointment as the new Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Barber Professor of Fine Arts.

15 November 2022

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...