Research Events
PhD student reports on her participation at Newberry Conference 2018.
History of Art PhD research student Delia Moldovan has presented a paper at this year's entitled . In the paper, the iconographic impact of incunabula on the production of illuminated Italian calendars is considered using the 'Officium beate Marie virginis: ad usum Romane ecclesie' as a case study. The Officum was printed in Lyon in four editions between 1499 and 1501 by Spanish and Piedmont printers, and edited by Bonino de Boninis. It is demonstrated that the woodcuts were used as iconographic models for two luxury manuscripts created in Ferrarese and Florentine, respectively.
Her REPORT can be viewed online.
Spanish Painting students given privileged access to Bowes Museum collection.
Students studying Spanish Painting and course leader Professor Lorenzo Pericolo recently visited Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, for a dedicated tour of the collection. Curator Bernadette Petti guided the group through the Spanish paintings, including access to the store where more works are housed. She also explained the newly established Auckland Project (Auckland Bishop) and its importance for the study of Spanish painting and culture.
Michael Hatt: Image of the American Indian session at CAA 2018.
Professor Michael Hatt has chaired a session with Martina Droth (Yale Center for British Art) at the CAA conference in Los Angeles: .
This interdisciplinary session seeks to explore the various ways in which native peoples from the United States and Canada, and the artifacts of their cultures, were being represented, portrayed, studied, and collected in Britain in the long nineteenth century.
An article by PhD research student Fabio Franz has been published.
An article written by Fabio Franz has been published in the latest issue of Brill's journal Experiment.
focuses on the provenance, conservation history, and critical fortuna of some selected Western European paintings that were placed in Saint Petersburg between 1850 and 1917. It includes: a comparison between the visits to Russia made by the German expert Gustav Friedrich Waagen and the Italian connoisseur Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle; an investigation of Cavalcaselle’s alleged meeting with the Russian expert Fedor Antonovich Bruni regarding the paintings Saint Sebastian Barbarigo by Titian, Apollo and Marsyas Litta by Bronzino, and Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, now attributed to Pontormo; and an exploration of the extent to which Russian galleries and private collections were accessible to Western scholars.
Volume 23, Issue 1,
Dr Sciampacone will be presenting a paper at the CAA conference in Los Angeles.
History of Art Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow will be presenting a paper entitled 'The Aesthetics of the Diagram in Victorian Medical Climatology' in a on 'Art on the Nature of Data about Nature' at the College Art Association in Los Angeles on 23 February 2018.
In Conversation: Clare Woods and Karen Lang at the Mead Gallery.
Tomorrow evening, Karen Lang (Reader in History of Art) and will be discussing the artist’s new series of paintings in a at the Mead Gallery. A panel of University of ÌÇÐÄTV academics including Clément Dessy, Johannes Roessler and Jonathan Skinner will comment on Woods’ work and the discussion will then open up to involve the audience.
Clare Woods’ work is held in many major international collections including those of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, Arts Council England, the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, USA.
The event is organised by the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts.
ITV film featuring interviews with Lorenzo Pericolo and Giorgio Tagliaferro
Don't miss Canaletto & the Art of Venice, which opened the major ITV series Great Art.
Damien Hirst with our students during seminar at his Venice exhibition.
Damien Hirst's exhibition has attracted a great deal of critical attention, and ÌÇÐÄTV History of Art students studying in Venice had a rare opportunity to meet with the artist and discuss the work. Dr Karen Lang, lead tutor on our module Exhibiting the Contemporary, has been holding regular seminars at exhibition sites during the Venice term, including installations at the Venice Biennale.

Students study Venice Biennale installation with its creator Michele Ciacciofera.
ÌÇÐÄTV students in Venice have recently had the opportunity to discuss the Venice Biennale installation Janus Code with with its creator in an exclusive interview. The Venice Biennale is a key element of the Exhibiting the Contemporary module which examines the importance of exhibition for the interpretation of contemporary art, with seminars taking place on-site with the works of art.


Professor Paul Smith and 'The Art Exhibition of the Year' (Daily Telegraph).
The National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition , which opened on October 26th, is getting 5-star reviews for its wonderful collection of paintings brought together from galleries and collections around the world, some of which haven't been seen in the UK before. The exhibition draws on the expertise of Paul Smith, a leading authority on Cézanne, both for his lecture (in the Late Shift Talks and Lectures series, 30th November, tickets from NPG), and also for an innovative new idea that allows you to take an expert with you around the exhibition.
Visitors to the exhibition can pick up an app for their smartphone that goes far beyond the usual audio guide. This app bridges the gap between the expert and the gallery visitor and lets Prof Smith share his expertise about the paintings. He shows visitors how to experience the artist's vision, and use of colour, and how to understand Cézanne as the painter he was.

Paul Cézanne, Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1888-90. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Announcing a special event in London for prospective students!
We will be offering a rare opportunity for prospective students to hear from the Head of Department, other members of the History of Art team and Alumni. This event will be hosted at our London premises in King’s Cross. You will find out more about what Art History is all about, the degree and admissions criteria for ÌÇÐÄTV, graduate opportunities and find out more about the exciting semester spent in beautiful Venice at ÌÇÐÄTV’s own Venetian Palazzo.
Time: 4.30pm - 6.30pm, Monday 13 November 2017
Location:
Light refreshments will be provided. Parents and teachers are most welcome.
Please as places are limited.
We hope to see you there.
Prof Lorenzo Pericolo and Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro in Exhibition on Screen film
Canaletto and the Art of Venice is a about the Queen's Gallery of the same name.