Fashion police dictated gender norms in early modern Genoa
Sumptuary laws – designed to “control luxury clothing consumption and the social ills it could encourage” – constrained women more than they did men.
Read moreThe department encourages the crossing not only of geographic but also disciplinary borders through exploration of a wide range of fields including architecture, urban planning, critical and post-colonial theory, media studies, the sciences and social history.
Associate Professor Annetta Alexandridis is featured in 'Firing the Canon: The Cornell Casts and Their Discontents':
Begun in 1924 and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1929, the Mnemosyne Atlas is Aby Warburg’s attempt to map the “afterlife of antiquity,” or how images of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power emerge in Western antiquity and then reappear and are reanimated in the art and cosmology of later times and places, from Alexandrian Greece to Weimar Germany. Focusing especially on the Renaissance, the historical period where he found the struggle between the forces of reason and unreason to be most palpable, Warburg hoped that the Mnemosyne Atlas would allow its spectators to experience for themselves the “polarities” that riddle culture and thought.
Click here to explore ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas.
Sumptuary laws – designed to “control luxury clothing consumption and the social ills it could encourage” – constrained women more than they did men.
Read more"Borrowing Paradise," a new book for children, brings a community-centered Balinese Hindi ritual to life.
Read moreHagia Sophia: Church, Mosque, Museum; Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
Read moreThe Institute of International Education (IIE) selected The History of Art Ph.D. Student, Elja Sharifi to be an inaugural member of its Global Community for Women's Leadership (GCWL).
Read moreThe Findley Lecture with Brenda Croft 12/9/24
Read moreVisual Culture Colloquium with Christiane Paul 11/21/24
Read moreVisual Culture Colloquium with Hannah Star Rogers 12/3/24
Read morePhD Student Iris Luo Curates Exhibition on Barkcloth Textiles
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