Research Events
Past Speakers (since 2020)
New PhD by Research Scholarship for Venetian Renaissance Painting.
Closing date: 1st May 2015.
For more information see:
- The project website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/projects/nationalgallery
- The advertisement on jobs.ac.uk: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKV966/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-studentship-with-the-national-gallery-navigating-the-canals-making-and-moving-venetian-renaissance-paintings/
Congratulations: MA student wins Cini Foundation Scholarship.
Congratulations to Philip Zidarov, an MA student in the department, who has won a scholarship from the Cini Foundation in Venice to pursue research at the Vittore Branca International Center for Studies of Italian Culture. Philip’s project, Visual Documents of Two Volcanic Eruptions: The Journeys of Images, examines the use and re-use of images of Etna and Vesuvius by artists, engravers, and printers through the 17th and 18th centuries.
PhD student Stefano Colombo wins a Royal Historical Society travel grant.
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".
Desiree de Chair curates display at Henry Moore Institute.
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.
PhD student participates in digital reconstruction of Palazzo Grimani
Kayoko Ichikawa formed part of a group at the Digital Humanities Fall School at Ca’ Foscari, our partner university in Venice.
Work/study fellowships granted for History of Art students at Venice Biennale
Over the summer, three second year students will work at the British Pavilion and conduct independent research.