TODAY! Friday, February 3rd, Art History Professors Anna Campbell and Guillermina de Ferrari with Art History Affiliate Professor Sarah Anne Carter will present their current research projects with the goal of sharing and sustaining intellectual energy around visual cultures topics. …
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Faculty News | Professor Thomas Dale Named MAA Fellow
Professor Thomas E. A. Dale, the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair of Art History, has been elected to the Medieval Academy of America‘s Fellows Class of 2023. A prestigious honor, fellows are nominated by their colleagues within the …
Faculty News | Professor Spaulding’s Edits and Publishes in Selva
Professor Daniel Spaulding has edited the latest edition of Selva, an open access peer-reviewed journal of the history and historiography of art, and published it’s opening article. The article, “Ideology, Strategy, Aesthetics,” can be read in full here.
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | From Tomb to Temple: Ancient Chinese Art and Religion in Transition
Professor Yuhang Li will be teaching ART HIST 307/776 | From Tomb to Temple: Ancient Chinese Art and Religion in Transition TR 9:30–10:45 AM during the Spring 2023 semester. This will be the first time since Fall 2019 that …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | From Mecca to Dubai: Architecture in Arabia
Need a seminar for spring? Curious about Qatar after watching the World Cup? Come think it through with us! Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be offering AH 510/810 From Mecca to Dubai: Architecture in Arabia | Wednesdays 5:00–7:30PM | L&S Credit. Email …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Have Brush, Will Travel: The Italian Renaissance from Florence to Rome
Professor Kirsten Phillips-Court will be offering AH 106 | Have Brush, Will Travel: The Italian Renaissance from Florence to RomeMW 11:00–11:50 AM | No Prereqs! | L&S Credit | Humanities Breadth | Register hereDescription: This course explores artistic developments that …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Caribbean Entanglements
Professor Guillermina De Ferrari will be teaching ART HIST 802 | Caribbean Entanglements W 3:30–6:00 PM during the Spring 2023 semester. Graduate Standing. Instructor consent required. Email gdeferrari@wisc.edu to enroll. Description: In the Caribbean, global warming, the legacy of slavery, and neocolonial experiments in both late …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Greek Sculpture
Learn Greek sculpture’s true colors this spring. Professor Nick Cahill will be teaching AH 302 | Greek Sculpture TR 11:00 AM–12:15 PM. Sophomore Standing | L&S Credit | Humanities Breadth.Register here. Description: This course examines problems in style, techniques and reconstruction of glyptic sculpture, …
Faculty News | Professor Nelson Article Published in “The Art Bulletin”
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Nelson for the publication of her article “A Ming Chinese and Spanish Imperial Collaboration in Southeast Asia: The Boxer Codex” in the latest issue of The Art Bulletin.You can access Prof. Nelson’s article here. Abstract: The …
This Year in the Art History Department | Looking Back at 2022
2022 was a major year for the Department of Art History as we hired a new Department Administrator, Peggy Hacker, and Professor Steffani Bennett as the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art. We also celebrated the career …