January 15, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Alice M. Rudy Price (PhD 2014, Adj, Asst. Prof.) funding for six months of research in Denmark from May to December 2025. This funding will support catalogue research for a 2026–2027 art exhibition, "Aging Bodies, Mature Careers," hosted by Ribe Kunstmuseum and Skovgaard Museet in Denmark.
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December 12, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Luke's article, "The Spanish Imposition of the Grid-Pattern Town upon its Mesoamerican Colonies and How it Disrupted Native Space, Analyzed Through the Maps of the “Relaciones Geográficas”" was published in asterisk*: yale undergraduate journal of art & art history issue 7 fall 2023. Find it here: https://www.asteriskjournal.org/fall-2023
Congratulations to Luke for his original work!
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December 12, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Students in the upper-level Art History class, the Global Middle Ages, taught by Dr. Joseph Kopta have produced an impressive story about the period between 1000 to 1400, across the globe. Check it out here: https://storymaps.com/stories/865221256e654f1798f03cb2fcdae5de
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December 7, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Jackie moderated a conversation concerning the interpretation of L'Enfant's plan for Washington, DC with Elise Friedland (Classics, GWU) and the artist Peter Waddell, who paints scenes of American history. A recording of the conversation can be found at https://vimeo.com/878754870
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November 30, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma will present at the CIHA (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art) 2024 conference which is taking place in Lyon, France from June 23-28, 2024. Her paper "Between North and. South: A New Reading of Andrea Mantegna's Distemper and Monochromatic Paintings" was accepted into a panel entitled "Painting the Materials, Imitating the Techniques: A Dialogue Between Mediums in Early Modern Art" .
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November 9, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Özlem Yıldız (PhD candidate), Ryan Mitchell (PhD student) and Miray Eroglu (PhD student) participated in an Islamic Art Study Day at Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as part of the awarding ceremony of the Charles Lang Freer Medal and lecture honoring Gülru Necipoğlu on October 28, 2023. On October 29th 2023, Yıldız, Mitchell and Eroglu visited the Freer Collection's special collection with curators Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig to look at works of art in the collections inspired by Professor Necipoğlu's lecture: "From China to Europe: A Topkapi Palace Album with Images in the Persianate, Cathayan, Frankish Manners (c. 1350-1500)."
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