Our department studies areas traditionally central to the discipline such as ancient, medieval and Renaissance art, and the integration of recent fields of theory and research to the study of global visual culture. Students further their understanding of the discipline of art history, its roots, its methodologies, as well as its historical and critical connections with other disciplines.
Thanks to the generous support of the Estate of Charles Baskerville, History of Art & Visual Studies is delighted to offer eligible students travel support through the Baskerville Undergraduate Travel Grant. The purpose of these funds is to support student participation in summer experiences or to attend conferences related to their studies in History of Art. Summer experiences can include but are not limited to internships at museums, galleries, or auction houses, archaeological excavations, summer study in a specialty program (e.g. conservation studies), or other relevant professional and academic developmental programs.
Annetta Alexandridis, classical archaeologist and art historian in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, died April 13. Known for her hands-on approach, she was associate director of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, Türkiye and co-curated the Cornell Plaster Cast Collection.
ICM NEW CONVERSATIONS - C.J. Wan-Ling Wee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) "Shanghai Spirit": The Shanghai Biennale 2000 and the Transnational–Postcolonial
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.
Image caption: Francisco José de Goya, “Murío la verdad [Truth has died],” Plate 79 of The Disasters of War, 1863. Etching and drypoint, 14.6 x 17.8 cm. Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Museum Associates Purchase Fund.
