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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…

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Professor Singh was a leading scholar in the study of South Asia’s court painting and contemporary politics of collecting and museums. She served as the Dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, where she taught since 2001, and was distinguished for the energy she brought to her teaching and research. De…

The 2023-2024 Professor of Fine Art is Professor Pascal Griener. This lecture series is entitled: 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'.The history of the human race on earth now has a name: the Anthropocene. During the nineteenth century, the Anthropocene entered a crucial …

This book offers a fresh look at the history of feminist informed art making, focusing on the 1970s when the Women’s Liberation Movement was most active. Rather than tell this story through one artist, or one medium or one strand of feminism, I wanted to register the complex ways artists negotiated women’s liberation, sometimes finding great empowe…

Camouflage is not the exclusive domain of animals. Humans also practice it, in hunting, war and fashion, social behaviour, and the arts. It is not restricted to artefacts; it also occurs in social behaviour, when people disguise their social status, desires, or motives behind appearances they judge to be more acceptable or effective. The shared dom…