Felipe Pereda has been chosen as a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for the current academic year. These awards are given annually to a select few faculty colleagues in recognition of their achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history, or art. This award reflects Professor Pereda’s outstanding contributions to his field, including the 2018 publications of Images of Discord: Poetics and Politics of the Sacred Image in Fifteenth-Century Spain and Crime and Illusion: The Art of Truth in the Spanish Golden Age
Sunday at The Met—The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated
SUNDAY / APRIL 14 2:00–3:30 P.M.
John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, Department of Asian Art, The Met Melissa McCormick, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
Join the exhibition curators as they explore the significance of The Tale of Genji in Japanese visual culture and world literature through paintings, illustrations, and...
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth gave a Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecture titled “Drawing as Dialogue: Fragonard in Tivoli” at the University of Georgia, Athens, in November. In December, she also gave a lecture on “Delacroix: Love and Work,” at the Zentralinstitut fűr Kunstgeschichte in Munich, as part of the symposium Liebe, Arbeit, Kunst.
On October 18th, Joseph Koerner delivered the keynote lecture opening the international Hans Baldung Grien conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. His paper, titled “Der Fall Baldung” (“The Case of Baldung”) addressed the contemporary relevance of the artist (as portraitist of self and of enemies) in anticipation for the monumental Baldung exhibition opening in Karlsruhe next year.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, has been appointed the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, for the academic year 2019–2020. Among the projects on which he will be working are the Panizzi Lectures for the British Library (2021), which will form the basis of a second book on diagrams, and an exhibition, “Imperial Splendor,” to be held at the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum in New York (2021) on manuscript illumination in the Holy Roman Empire from Emperor Charlemagne...
An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran, ed. David J. Roxburgh (Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 2017).
Has won the following awards:
50 Books | 50 Covers
(Selected as one of the 50 best designed books of the year)
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and Design Observer
