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Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art, spoke to BBC News about the 19th century painting, "The Meeting on the Turret Stairs."
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In a Q&A, Assistant Professor of History of Art Justin Willson describes the power of iconic imagery, the richness of Yale’s collections, and his favorite place for a bike ride.
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Morgan Ng, Assistant Professor of History of Art, makes the case in a new book that breakthroughs in many fields of design yielded cutting-edge defensive technologies during the Italian Renaissance.
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For centuries people have turned to feathers as the stuff of — and the subject of — various art forms. In a Q&A, two FAS scholars discuss the cultural value of feathers and why it transcends time and space.
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Historian Alexander Ekserdjian discusses how his fascination with the classics started when he was a child and why he’s particularly drawn to sacred objects.
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Marisa Bass, Professor of History of Art, discusses her new book, The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic.
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An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. Jennifer Raab's new book reexamines the haunting relics.
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Seven Yale faculty members have received 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Artist and scholar Royce K. Young Wolf joins the Yale community as the second Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation.
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This spring, the Graduate School Alumni Association sponsored the first of the new Alumni Conversations program, with the inaugural talk featuring the History of Art Department. The Zoom session was hosted by GSAA board members and department alumni Carmen Bambach ’81, ’88 PhD, and Stephanie Grilli ’80 PhD, and was spearheaded by department chair Tim Barringer. It introduced alumni to current students, new faculty members, ongoing curricular initiatives, and to the recently opened facilities for object study and laboratory of conservation at West Campus.