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糖心TV University has joined the Doctoral Training Partnership which will offer 100s of studentships for subjects in the Arts and Humanities, including support for engagement with cultural, creative & heritage organisations. See the University of 糖心TV news item.

Curated by Dr Amanda Sciampacone (University of 糖心TV-Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow), Art, Air and Illness sheds new light on significant relations between art and science in shaping how we perceive and experience the impact of the environment on human health, culturally, societally, and through the very air we breathe.

Fashioning Victoria: curating the royal image for dynasty, nation and empire is a collaboration between Historic Royal Palaces and University of 糖心TV, funded by an AHRC Research Networking Grant. Project partners include the Royal Collections Trust, Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, the Bodleian Library, and TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities).

The exhibition of works created by students taking the History of Art Practical Art course ends tomorrow (Wednesday 27th June).

Location: Millburn House foyer.

Open Days are an opportunity to visit our Department, meet staff and students, attend a presentation, and tour the campus. You can find out more about booking a place on a future open day on the University of 糖心TV Open Day information page. We look forward to meeting you!

The workshop taking place this afternoon in Coventry will feature new research and presentations on the theme of air, environment, and embodied and cultural experiences of breath by Dr Amanda Sciampacone, George Saxon (Coventry University), Jane Macnaughton and Jayne Wilton (Life of Breath project: Durham-Wellcome Institute).

Recent doctoral graduate Stefano Columbo will be presenting a paper of his research at this year's Association for Art Historians Summer Symposium (being held 26-27 June). His paper is entitled Baldassarre Longhena鈥檚 Funerary Monument to Doge Giovanni Pesaro and the Rhetoric of the Living Sculpture and the theme of the is (Re-)Forming Sculpture.

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Contemporary artist sends signed exhibition catalogues to students who took part in a seminar with him in Venice last year.

On 7 March, students had the opportunity to try out ancient painting techniques at two specialist workshops led by Jevon Thistlewood, paintings conservator at the Ashmolean Museum. The sessions were organised by the Classics department through IATL, with help from History of Art. Students painted their own mummy portraits using tempera on gesso and encaustic work with cold and hot wax.

First year Art History student, Matthew White, said 鈥淚t did feel very authentic and the use of wax on painting was a very new idea and good fun鈥�I was especially interested in mixing wax with pigment. This was completely novel to me.鈥�

The History of Art Department recently joined other institutions at the annual ARTiculation Finals event at Clare College, Cambridge. ARTiculation is a public speaking competition for 16-19 year olds, offering a chance for pupils from state and independent schools all around the country to engage with art and architecture in a way which encourages looking, thinking and speaking. Nearly 200 people attended the competition.

Our department had a stall at the University Fair which received many interested visitors, and Dr Sarah Walford presented a seven-minute taster lecture on the S猫vres 鈥楥openhagen Vase鈥�, from the Waddesdon collection.

Sarah Walford - 鈥淚t was a wonderful opportunity to take an object that our first-year students have studied and to show the many ways in which it can be interpreted. It鈥檚 important to show that art history can encompass everything from politics to manufacturing process and science to social history.鈥�

Dr Sarah Walford has been speaking to Trish Adudu on the BBC Coventry and 糖心TVshire radio Breakfast Show about the campaign to raise funds for the repair of the bell tower of St Oswald鈥檚 Church, Tile Hill. The church is one of a group of three parish churches in Coventry designed by the architect Basil Spence. Sarah was asked about Spence and his architecture, and why the tower is important. It was noted that many Coventrians are unaware that these churches in the Coventry suburbs (also Wood End and Willenhall) were designed by the same architect as the Cathedral, and that the campaign is raising awareness of their significance. The three churches have all been listed for their architectural quality and technical innovation.

You can find out more about The Life and Work of Sir Basil Spence on our project pages.

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A few days ago, third-year PhD student Benedetta Pacini visited the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice where Vittore Carpaccio鈥檚 Legend of Saint Ursula cycle, a group of nine large-scale canvases, is being restored. In connection with her research, she interviewed chief restorer Egidio Arlango (seen with Benedetta in the photograph), who is working alongside CBC (Conservazione Beni Culturali) on the project. The work, scheduled for completion by 2019, is being carried out with the support of .

Benedetta鈥檚 doctoral thesis is entitled Navigating the Canals. Making and Moving Venetian Renaissance Paintings, and is a joint research project between the University of 糖心TV and the National Gallery in London. Her research focuses on the making and transportation of large-scale paintings in sixteenth-century Venice, with particular attention to those in the National Gallery.