CFP: 3 Sessions at AAH 2020 (Birmingham, 14-16 April 21)

Subject: CFP: 3 Sessions at AAH 2020 (Birmingham, 14-16 Apr 21) Association for Art History’s 47th Annual Conference (AAH), University of Birmingham, April 14 - 17, 2021 Deadline: Oct 19, 2020 [1] Why Trompe l’Oeil? The art of deception across the boundaries of time and space [2] The Space Between Non-Arts and Fine Arts: Confronting Gender and … Continue reading CFP: 3 Sessions at AAH 2020 (Birmingham, 14-16 April 21)

CFP: Renaissance conference (Paris, 10-12 March 2021)

Subject: CFP: Renaissance conference (Paris, 10-12 Mar 21) Paris, March 10 - 12, 2021 Deadline: Sep 15, 2020 Call for Papers Paris, 10-12 March 2021: Renaissance conference. Organised by the Art History departments of: Universidad de Jaén; Universität Leipzig; École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL (HISTARA) in Paris and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. With the support of the … Continue reading CFP: Renaissance conference (Paris, 10-12 March 2021)

SHC Report: Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika.

Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika. Over this period of lockdown, shielding or imposed furlough, many of us have turned to reading crime novels. However, within our field there has been enough criminal activity to absorb art historians. Hackers posing as London art dealer Simon C. Dickinson Ltd tricked the Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede, Netherlands) … Continue reading SHC Report: Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika.

SHC Review: Wolfram Koeppe Ed., Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), published in conjunction with the MMA exhibition 25 November 2019-1 March 2020. Review by Eleni Vassilika.

Wolfram Koeppe Ed., Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), published in conjunction with the MMA exhibition 25 November 2019-1 March 2020. Review by Eleni Vassilika. If there was ever an exhibition that one regrets not having seen, it was this … Continue reading SHC Review: Wolfram Koeppe Ed., Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), published in conjunction with the MMA exhibition 25 November 2019-1 March 2020. Review by Eleni Vassilika.

SHC Review: Geoffrey Robertson, Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure (London: Biteback, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika.

Geoffrey Robertson, Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure (London: Biteback, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika. Beginning with Cicero’s famous prosecution of Verres, who stole privately owned art while he was Governor in Sicily, the human rights barrister Robertson discusses recent (and promised) repatriations of cultural and human remains of … Continue reading SHC Review: Geoffrey Robertson, Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure (London: Biteback, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika.