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by Xinyue Gao Kristin L. Huffman, Lecturing Fellow of Art History, has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. An Aisla Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, she will be in residence at the Center this spring to advance her book and companion visual database about the graphic inventions of Jacopo de’ Barbari. This enigmatic artist’s woodcuts and engravings inspired high-profile practitioners and theorists, such as Albrecht Dürer, and influential collectors, such as the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and his daughter, Margaret of Austria,…

The annual meeting of the College Art Association is here, and it’s fully virtual this year. From the Nasher Museum of Art to Duke University Press, Duke will be present in many ways: Thursday, February 17, 2022 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Susanna Caviglia and Niall S. Atkinson present, “Travelers, Urban Mobility, and Understanding of the Three Ecologies of Early Modern Rome,” as part of the session “Buildings on the Move: Architecture and Travel Across the Pre-Modern World” Paul B. Jaskot chairs “Socialist, Ephemeral, and Globalized: New Directions in the Study of German Art,” as part of the European Postwar…

Join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its Friday morning faculty speaker series, tgiFHI! On Friday January 14, the series will feature Paul B. Jaskot, Professor of Art History and German Studies, Co-Director of the Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab, and Chair of the Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department. Using Digital Methods to Analyze Humanities Sources: The Case of Nazi-Occupied KrakowPaul B. Jaskot9:30 – 11 a.m. EDTFri, Jan. 14, 2022 To attend this event by Zoom webinar: REGISTER HERE Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social…

Art History PhD student Dana Hogan, who has worked as a graduate assistant with several DAHVC projects, is co-chairing a digital art history panel at the College Art Association in 2022: We invite paper proposals for the CAA 2022 affiliated session of the Digital Art History Society, “Dismantling the Patriarchal Canon: Foregrounding Women Artists and Patrons through Digital Art History.” This virtual session will take place March 3–5, 2022 as part of the 110th CAA Annual Conference. Proposals (abstracts of no more than 250 words and session fit rationales of no more than 100 words) will be accepted through Thursday,…

At the College Art Association’s virtual 2021 conference, graduate students from Duke’s Art, Art History & Visual Studies presented their use of GIS technologies as part of their research. Topics ranged from mapping women artists’ travels to Sevillian painters’ colocations. Watch the Presentations https://vimeo.com/showcase/8199789 Presentation Titles & Authors Mapping Migrations of Italian Women Artists, 1500-1700, Dana Hogan, Duke UniversityThe Sevillian Market for Paintings (1500-1700) through GIS: Indeterminate Historical Information and Statistical Analysis, Felipe Alvarez de Toledo, Duke Art Law and Markets InitiativeMedieval and Early Modern Hospitals: The Benefits of Geotemporal Analyses, Brittany Forniotis, Duke UniversityReconsidering the Monza Holy Land Ampullae…