The Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, is a relic in constant motion. Legend holds that at the end of the thirteenth century, a company of angels flew Mary’s small brick house—the site of the Annunciation and Jesus’s childhood home—out of Nazareth before eventually depositing it in Loreto, a remote hill townContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto’, The Courtauld Institute, 30th June-1st July 2022, Deadline: 15th March 2022”
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Recorded Lecture: ‘A Material World – Revealing the Coventry Tapestry through Conservation’, Alison Lister, The Warburg Institute
The process of conserving a historic artefact provides opportunities to gather data on its composition and condition that can inform its future interpretation, presentation, and preservation. In this seminar, Alison Lister (Textile Conservation Limited) will describe and illustrate the initial results of a detailed examination and assessment of the late 15th/early 16th century tapestry fromContinue reading “Recorded Lecture: ‘A Material World – Revealing the Coventry Tapestry through Conservation’, Alison Lister, The Warburg Institute”
Online Lecture: ‘Sumatran Camphor in Medieval Afro-Eurasia,’ Alex West, Silk Roads Programme at King’s College, University of Cambridge, Zoom, 25th February 2022, 14:00 (GMT)
Alex West is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden. Specialising in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago in the fifteenth century before the arrival of the Portuguese and the Islamisation of Sunda, his translations and research have revealed the presence of commodities sourced from places as far apart as the Levant and NewContinue reading “Online Lecture: ‘Sumatran Camphor in Medieval Afro-Eurasia,’ Alex West, Silk Roads Programme at King’s College, University of Cambridge, Zoom, 25th February 2022, 14:00 (GMT)”
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Art History Leadership, Deadline: 21st March 2022
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) recognize that the growth of visionary and effective museum and academic leaders does not stop at graduation. Indeed, critical skills such as project management, effective administration, goal-setting, and professional accountability are often not integrated intoContinue reading “Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Art History Leadership, Deadline: 21st March 2022”
Call for Papers: ‘Steppe Medicine: Data, History, Applications, Concepts and Terms’, Al-Farabi Kaznu, Kazakhstan, 4th-5th October 2022, Deadline: 25th May 2022
AL-FARABI KAZNU FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER “WRITTEN MONUMENTS AND SPIRITUAL HERITAGE” October 4-5, 2022 Within the framework of the research project, the Research Center “Written Monuments and Spiritual Heritage” of the Turksoy Department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Al-Farabi KazNU invites scientists, researchers, teachers and doctoral students to take part inContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Steppe Medicine: Data, History, Applications, Concepts and Terms’, Al-Farabi Kaznu, Kazakhstan, 4th-5th October 2022, Deadline: 25th May 2022”
Lecture Series: ‘Representing and Naming Greece from the 14th to the 16th Century’, Université de Lille, November 22nd 2021- June 13th 2022
The ERC AGRELITA team is delighted to present the program of its seminar, dedicated, throughout 2021-2022, to: “Representing and naming Greece and the Greek space, from the 14th to the 16th Century”, organised by Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (University of Lille, France). Check out the Academic Blog of the project: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/471 For Zoom link, please register at theContinue reading “Lecture Series: ‘Representing and Naming Greece from the 14th to the 16th Century’, Université de Lille, November 22nd 2021- June 13th 2022”
Funding Opportunity: Heckman Stipends, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Minnesota (Deadline: 15th March 2022)
For scholars who have not yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in HMML’s collections. The program welcomes international applicants, but does not sponsor J visas. Funder – Established in 1991, Heckman Stipends are made possible by the A.A. Heckman Endowed Fund Awarded – Semi-annually NumberContinue reading “Funding Opportunity: Heckman Stipends, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Minnesota (Deadline: 15th March 2022)”
New Publication: ‘The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books’ by Elina Gertsman
Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The AbsentContinue reading “New Publication: ‘The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books’ by Elina Gertsman”
New Publication, ‘Visualising Household Health: Medieval Women, Art and Knowledge in the Régime du corps’ by Jennifer Borland
In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations inContinue reading “New Publication, ‘Visualising Household Health: Medieval Women, Art and Knowledge in the Régime du corps’ by Jennifer Borland”
CFP: ‘Meta, Matrix, Mater – Renaissance Metaphors of the Matrix’, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (Deadline: 20th March 2022)
The female sex has become the core of an increasing number of Early Modern studies since the rise of a gender-sensitive feminist viewpoint in art history. Many have dealt with images of a hairless and polished vulva, sometimes ostensibly eroticized. Pending this approach, the 2022 CHAR Workshop wishes to re-explore the imaginary of the femaleContinue reading “CFP: ‘Meta, Matrix, Mater – Renaissance Metaphors of the Matrix’, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (Deadline: 20th March 2022)”
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