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The development of the Old Press / Mill Lane site by Pembroke College has created a dynamic new city quarter, as well as providing additional accommodation for the College, publicly accessible gardens, and exhibition and performance spaces. This inaugural exhibition features Cambridge-based artistsXinyi Bi,Rebecca Ilett, andIdit Nathanwho were give…

The article was published in Art HistoryVolume 46, Issue 1 and can be read here:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8365.12709

To find out more, visit: https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/scott-opler-fellowship-renaissance-art-and-architectural-history

Professor Deborah Howard has won the award for the project 'Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio'. All winners are now up for a Public Choice Award and voting is open here: https://vote.europanostra.orgFor more information about the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards visit: https://www.europanostra.org/202…

With great pleasure, we announce the 23/24 cohort of Visiting Research Fellows as Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (Michaelmas 2023), Professor Carol Payne (Michaelmas 2023), Dr Elizabeth Emrich-Rougé (Lent 2024), and Kimberley Foster (Easter 2024). (Residency terms indicated)..These researchers will join us and departments includingHistory of Art,the Sco…

Sade was a clandestine and censored writer who was imprisoned, but is now a classic author for French literature. He was acclaimed as a revolutionary who supported freedom, whilst arousing scandal and outrage.The exhibition looks at the stereotypes associated with his name and explores the aesthetic, philosophical and political implications of his …

The artwork, entitled The Willow will Submerge in Time contains plants and soil from the River Cam mounted in a Lightbox and has now taken pride of place in the Dining Hall of Trinity Hall alongside more traditional portraiture.Sophie Mei Birkin was a BA History of Art student in the Department from 2014-17  and graduated with First Class Honours w…

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 architecture in England. She was …

The book is published by Yale University Press, for more information visit: https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/tudor-liveliness/?k=9781913107376To see a trailer for the book visit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrdKmkkIws_/

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 perspective. These paintings ar…

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…

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

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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…