The major international exhibition co-curated by Michael Hatt of the Department of History of Art has travelled from the United States to London, and opens today at Tate Britain.

Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901 has been organised by the Yale Center for British Art, in partnership with Tate Britain. See earlier news item.

We were saddened to hear of the death of former colleague Dr Richard Morris, Research Associate and Reader in History of Art from 1974 until 2001.

Richard was an architectural historian and buildings archaeologist who played a significant role in the establishment of the department and its international reputation for the architectural history of England during the middle ages and the early modern period. He developed the Warwick Mouldings Archive, a paper archive of full-size moulding profiles from numerous standing structures and some archaeological collections, mainly in England and Wales. His recent publications covered such sites as Chepstow Castle, Coventry St Mary’s Cathedral Priory, Eynsham Abbey, Kenilworth Castle, Sherborne Abbey, Stoneleigh Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey and Tintern Abbey.

Memories and Tributes

The History of Art department’s status as one of the country’s leading departments has been confirmed by the results of the Research Excellence Framework.

The REF assesses the quality of each department’s research, as well as the public impact of that research, and the environment in which it is undertaken.

The department was 2nd for publications awarded the highest rating of 4* or ‘world-leading’, with 46% of our publications rated as world-leading.

For 4* ratings across all aspects of the REF, we were the 4th placed History of Art department.
 
According to the Research Fortnight Quality Index, Warwick was ranked 6th overall for History of Art.

History of Art PhD student, Stefano Colombo, has been awarded a Royal Historical Society conference travel grant. The grant will allow him to deliver a presentation at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Berlin, 26-28 March 2015. The title of the presentation is “The Commemorative Monument of the Fini Family in San Moisè: Strategies of Self-Promotion and Social Affirmation in Seventeenth-Century Venice".

Members of the Department of History of Art have assisted with captions for an exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice.

The Henry Moore Institute Library in Leeds is currently showing the display Henry Hugh Armstead's Royal Academy: A Sculptor's Career in Late Victorian Britain which has been curated by Desiree de Chair, PhD candidate in the History of Art department. The display is on until 14 December 2014.

Dr Karen Lang took part in a live discussion on the BBC Radio 3 programme Free Thinking on 9th October.

'Tim Marlow, Karen Lang, and Daniel Johnson discuss reading history through the paintings of Kiefer and Polke ahead of next month's 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.'

Hear the Podcast on the BBC Radio Three web site.

Kayoko Ichikawa formed part of a group at the Digital Humanities Fall School at Ca’ Foscari, our partner university in Venice.

Following a proposal by Professor Louise Campbell, the church of St Oswald, Tile Hill Coventry (designed by Basil Spence), which echoes in miniature and in modern materials the design of Coventry Cathedral, was added on 2 October to English Heritage's Register of Listed Buildings

Find out more about our AHRC project: The life and work of Sir Basil Spence 1907-76: architecture, tradition and modernity

See more images on the project page for this building.

The Wall Street Journal has just published a review of Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901, an exhibition co-curated by Michael Hatt of the History of Art department.

See earlier news item

Department of History of Art former PhD student Nora Gietz will deliver a special legacy lecture in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo and the 50th anniversary of St.John's International School, Waterloo. She will speak about her doctoral thesis: The Effects of Napoleonic Rule on Venice's Artistic Patrimony.

Nora completed her PhD in summer 2013 and was examined in September 2013.

Thursday October 2 at 19:30, reception from 18:30, Theater of the Performing Arts Center, St. John's International School, Waterloo, Belgium.

Free admission, donations to the scholarship fund gratefully accepted.