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In the latest episode of Veritalk , Jennifer Roberts, the Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, explores the unexpected connections between art and science. She shares how NASA engineers used art materials while awaiting the first...

“'I am delighted to recognize these five outstanding colleagues for their contributions to teaching, mentorship, and research,' Hoekstra said. 'Their passion, rigor, and creativity inspire our students every day, giving them the opportunity to ask big...

At the centennial meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, held this March in Cambridge, a session, ”Women’s Religious Communities: A Roundtable Discussion of Past Scholarship and New Directions,” was held in honor of the contributions of Prof. Jeffrey...

When Jinah Kim learned in 2016 that Museum of Fine Arts conservation scientist Michele Derrick had detected cobalt in a 15th-century Indian manuscript, she was presented with an obvious explanation: the document had probably been retouched later...

Professor Sarah Lewis, founder of Vision & Justice initiative, underscored the importance of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, as the blueprint to eliminate racism and protecting human rights She said that many societies were built on racial...

When Joseph Koerner first began teaching Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch at Harvard in the 1990s, he saw him as the “typical medieval artist” preoccupied with sin, chaos, and danger. But as Koerner uncovered more information about how Bosch’s works have...

In 1133, Margrave Leopold III and his wife Agnes founded a men’s convent of Augustinian Canons and a community of canonesses in Klosterneuburg as a double monastery. While elsewhere women's convents were dissolved by the 13th century at the latest, the...

Renaissance sculptor Pietro Torrigiano has long held a place in the public imagination as the man who broke Michelangelo’s nose. Indeed, he is known more for that story than for his impressive prowess as an artist. This engagingly written and deeply...

The Ladies on the Hill" is dedicated to the Benedictine convent of St. George in Prague and the women's community alongside the Augustinian Canons in Klosterneuburg. The volume examines the rich heritage of these women's monasteries from historical, art...

Although the works of Pietro Lorenzetti (1280–1348) rank among the most famous of the fourteenth century, one of his panels, a small Crucifixion, has remained largely overlooked, despite its unique imagery. Combining three temporal horizons—past, present...