Traditional areas of study integrated with modern fields of theory and research.
The Department of History of Art and Visual Studies
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.
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Department News
‘Destroy the Copy’: Essay collection rethinks the history of plaster casts
The destruction of replicated European sculpture collections can tell us as much as their creation.
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Visual Culture Colloquium with Audia Dixon - Reimagining Eden
Visual Culture Colloquium with Audia Dixon - Reimagining Eden
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Cornell alum to speak on the power of nonfiction comics in 21st century
On March 28, Andy Warner ’06, author of the memoir "Spring Rain" and several other books, will explore the power of graphic media to tell true stories.
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Cornell Book Launch: Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography
Co-edited by History of Art faculty Benjamin Anderson and Mirela Ivanova, University of Sheffield
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Benjamin Anderson presents on his new co-edited book at Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Lecture: Mirela Ivanova and Ben Anderson, "Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography"
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Visual Culture Colloquium with Kendra Greendeer
Enacting Land Memory for Indigenous Feminist Futures
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16
On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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Land Acknowledgement
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.