Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott has won The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography for her paper, “Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine.” Her paper explores how the …
Faculty News: Affiliate Prof. Marina Moskowitz’s “Politics at Home” Exhibition Featured on WPR & Isthmus
Art History Affiliate Professor Marina Moskowitz discussed the newly opened Politics at Home: Textiles as American History this past Wednesday, September 8th, on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). If you missed hearing Prof. Moskowitz on the radio, you …
Faculty News: Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s Latest Edited Volume is Now Available!
Professor Nancy Rose Marshall‘s latest edited volume, Victorian Science & Imagery: Representation & Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, is now available through University of Pittsburgh Press. In addition to editing the volume, Prof. Marshall wrote the …
Faculty News: Prof. Nelson Featured in State of Renaissance Art History Article
Professor Jennifer Nelson‘s latest book Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors been featured in the article “After the Plague: The State of the Renaissance Art History.” You can read the glowing review of Prof. Nelson’s place …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia to Present at “Working Stones in the Achaemenid Empire”
Art History Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia is giving a virtual lecture this Friday, September 17, 2021, as part of the symposium “Working on Stones in the Achaemenid Empire,” organized by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Iran’s …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik Named ICMA Newsletter Assistant Editor
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik is the incoming Assistant Editor for the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) Newsletter. It is a two-year graduate student position with the ICMA. Tania will be in charge of the events and exhibitions section and …
Happy First Day of Classes Badgers!
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Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day from the UW–Madison Department of Art History!
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 567/867 “Material History of American Landscape”
Professor Anna Andrzejewski‘s AH 567/867: “Material History of American Landscape” seminar will be taught in-person on Mondays, 2:30–5:00pm. This course seeks to examine what we can learn about the history of what we now call …
Student & Alumni Spotlight: Matthew Westerby & LauraLee Brott to present at the National Gallery of Art
On October 1, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art is hosting a virtual program, Fragments and Frameworks: Illuminated Manuscripts and Illustrated Books in Digital Humanities, organized by UW Art …