PhD candidate Fernanda Villarroel was selected in a national competition to represent UW-Madison in the Humanities Without Walls Summer Pre-Doctoral Workshop, summer of 2019, coordinated by The Center for the Humanities. She’ll join a cohort …
Year: 2019
Printed Bodies, Sculpted Christ: Juan Arfe’s contributions to Anatomical Study in Renaissance Spain
A Colloquium by Visiting Assistant Professor Carolina Alarcon Location: Elvejhem L170 Date: 3/28/2019 2:30pm
Art History Remembers Frank Horlbeck
Frank R. Horlbeck passed away peacefully on January 14, 2019, only two weeks short of his 95th birthday. He is being mourned and remembered by family, friends and former students around the United States, as …
Visual Cultures Collective
The VCC is a student organization whose mission is to create leadership and career development opportunities around the transdisciplinary study of visual cultures for all UW-Madison students.
Room Reservations
Auditoria and seminar room reservations in the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building.
Visiting Professor Alarcon, 2018-19
A big welcome to Prof. Carolina Alarcon, who has joined the department during the 2018-19 year to teach Renaissance art. A recent Ph.D. (Florida State University), Carolina’s research investigates the state of the art of …
Exhibition class spotlighted in News
Lecture: Rubens and the End of ‘Flemish’ Art in Spain
Lecture by Dr. Abigail Newman, University of Antwerp Image credit: Peter Paul Rubens, Queen Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus, c. 1622–23, oil on canvas, 205.1 x 361 cm, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
Lecture: Diagnosis and Presence: The Ekphrasis of a Toxcati Ixiptia in the Florentine Code
Please join us for lectures as part of our ongoing spring lecture series in early modern European Art! Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Nelson, Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Caption: Mexica …
New Online Course COMING SOON
Faculty News: Professor Anna Andrzejewski has received an online course development grant to support development of a new online offering, “History of Wisconsin Architecture.” This will help support the department’s expanding offerings in architectural history …