Art History Research

Art History awarded Mellon Foundation grant to develop and host Sawyer Seminar

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October 08, 2020

The College of Arts and Architecture’s Department of Art History, in collaboration with the College of the Liberal Arts, has been awarded $225,000 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a Sawyer Seminar titled “Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities.” Click here for full story.

For more information visit Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities

Art history, IST faculty win NEH grant to use computer-aided image analysis

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NEH logoAugust 28, 2020

Elizabeth Mansfield, professor and head of the Department of Art History, and James Wang, professor of information sciences and technology, have received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG) from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project that will use computer-aided image analysis to examine the depiction of clouds in the paintings of John Constable, a 19th-century European artist noted for his pictorial realism. Click here for full story.

For more information visit Seeing Constable’s Clouds

Art History awarded $20,000 grant from the Kress Foundation

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August 25, 2020

The Department of Art History has received a $20,000 grant from the Kress Foundation in support of a week-long graduate workshop that combines technical analysis, color science and art history.

The first-of-its-kind workshop at Penn State, scheduled to be held in summer of 2021, is open to Ph.D. candidates from the United States and abroad and will provide an integrated introduction to the history and science of color. Click here for full story.

For more information visit Virtual/Material: Color/Pigment Graduate Workshop