Posted on Friday 15 December 2017
Congratulations to Dr Richard Johns
Posted on Tuesday 12 December 2017
Hanna Vorholt's new book now available.
Posted on Monday 11 December 2017
We are delighted to announce a new publication by alumnus Matthew Walker
Posted on Tuesday 5 December 2017
Organised in conjunction with the National Gallery. Keynote speakers are Prof. Tim Barringer (Yale and Honorary Visiting Professor, University of York) and Prof. Cordula Grewe (Indiana University).
Posted on Thursday 30 November 2017
Second year PhD student Samantha Niederman has had an article accepted for publication this month.
Posted on Monday 20 November 2017
Professor Anthony Geraghty has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.
Posted on Friday 17 November 2017
New publication edited by Jason Edwards
Posted on Wednesday 1 November 2017
AHRC-funded 3D visualisation developed by York academics
Posted on Tuesday 31 October 2017
It's always nice to hear what our current and former students are getting up to, and we're delighted to share news from some of our recent alumni.
Posted on Thursday 26 October 2017
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Posted on Thursday 26 October 2017
Last week's 3 day symposium 'Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen' was a huge success, bringing together students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the work and influence of 19th-century artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Posted on Tuesday 10 October 2017
Hull Maritime Museum and University of York art historians are curating a new exhibition of J. M. W. Turner’s controversial paintings of whaling as part of Hull’s UK City of Culture celebrations.
Posted on Tuesday 10 October 2017
Liz Prettejohn gave the first lecture in the Cheltenham Literature Featival on Friday 6th October.
Posted on Friday 22 September 2017
A new publication is now available by Emanuele Lugli.
Posted on Wednesday 30 August 2017
We are delighted to welcome the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain for their annual conference!
Posted on Tuesday 15 August 2017
Professor Jason Edwards has published a review of Tate Britian's 'Queer British Art 1861-1967' for Enclave Review.
Posted on Tuesday 15 August 2017
Liz Prettejohn on organsing committee for symposium, hosted at Leighton House, Paul Mellon Centre and Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image
Posted on Tuesday 8 August 2017
Sculpture in the Time of Cholera: William Calder Marshall in Rome 1836-8
Posted on Friday 4 August 2017
Arnolfini Histories Conference, National Gallery, 12-13 January 2018
Posted on Friday 7 July 2017
Elizabeth Prettejohn's co-curated exhibition now open.
Posted on Friday 7 July 2017
Congratulations to Jiyi Ryu and Martha Cattell!
Posted on Friday 30 June 2017
Conservation work carried out by some of our MA students will be on display at Fairfax House until November 2017.
Posted on Tuesday 27 June 2017
Jeanne Nuechterlein has recorded a podcast with Janina Ramirez as part of the 'Art Dectective' series.
Posted on Friday 23 June 2017
Congratulations Adam!
Posted on Friday 16 June 2017
Congratulations Jason!
Posted on Tuesday 6 June 2017
Students from the History of Art department have been helping to prepare St Mary's Church for the 'Dark Self' exhibition.
Posted on Tuesday 6 June 2017
Congratulations to Cadence, Hanna, Jason, Michael and Grace!
Posted on Friday 2 June 2017
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War
Posted on Tuesday 30 May 2017
Congratulations to Sarah McTiernan (left) and Emily Yates (right), both studying for the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management!
Posted on Tuesday 30 May 2017
Lecture by Liz Prettejohn, June 6th, Halle, Germany.
Posted on Friday 12 May 2017
New Publication for Jane Hawkes
Posted on Tuesday 2 May 2017
We've received some interesting updates from some of our former students recently.
Posted on Monday 1 May 2017
Anthony Gertaghty hosts Q&A with three curators for the V&A
Posted on Friday 21 April 2017
The Department is delighted to announce that Professor Helen Hills has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2017-18, which she will combine with a period in Autumn Term 2017 as Senior Visiting Scholar at Villa I Tatti (Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Italy).
Posted on Friday 21 April 2017
The University of York, in partnership with Tate, is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a full-time collaborative PhD studentship focused on landscape painters’ studios and private galleries in which images of rural Britain were made, displayed and sold during the period c.1780–1850. The studentship commences on 1 October 2017. Principal Supervisor: Dr Richard Johns (York). Second supervisor: Dr Martin Myrone (Tate).
Posted on Friday 21 April 2017
The Department of History of Art at the University of York and the National Gallery invite applications for a three-year full-time Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship, fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to investigate the interrelationships between figural subjects and settings in the making and meaning of early Netherlandish paintings. The studentship commences on 1 October 2017 and will be jointly supervised by Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein (University of York) and Dr Susan Foister (National Gallery).
Posted on Thursday 20 April 2017
We are delighted to announce the new publication of a volume edited by Richard Marks, with Spike Bucklow and Lucy Wrapson
Posted on Wednesday 12 April 2017
PhD student Ilaria Grando has just been awarded a highly competitive Terra Foundation Travel Grant
Posted on Tuesday 4 April 2017
Liz Prettejohn to appear on BBC R4's 'Front Row' programme.
Posted on Tuesday 4 April 2017
Congratulations to Maddy Pelling!
Posted on Tuesday 21 March 2017
Construction, Reconstruction and Collection: recent stained glass research
Posted on Tuesday 21 March 2017
Professor Hills will give the prestigious Walker Lecture in Architectural History at the BSR in Rome
Posted on Friday 10 March 2017
We are thrilled to announce that a new and completely revised edition of Sarah Brown's book 'Stained Glass at York Minster' has just been published.
Posted on Tuesday 7 March 2017
Congratulations to Amy Moore!
Posted on Tuesday 28 February 2017
Rescheduled event
Posted on Friday 10 February 2017
Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein is to join the editorial staff of 'Art History' as Deputy Editor.
Posted on Friday 10 February 2017
Many congratulations to Fran!
Posted on Friday 10 February 2017
Professor Liz Prettejohn will deliver this year's Rumble Fund Lecture in Classical Art on 'Beauty and Classical Form'.
Posted on Tuesday 7 February 2017
First year History of Art PhD research student, Julie Ann Whyman, has been awarded this year’s John Pickard Essay Prize
Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2017
Congratulations to Jason Edwards and Sarah Burnage, Cordula van Wyhe and Emanuele Lugli, who all have new publications available!
Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2017
Applications for this year's York Summer Theory Institute in Art History are now open.
Posted on Friday 6 January 2017
Helen Hills to lecture at Hull City of Culture celebrations in 2017
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