Rutgers Art History

04/30/2025

Congrats to our Honors Thesis Undergraduate Students on such thought provoking research and wonderful presentations!

10/30/2024

What a wonderful time celebrating Dr. Puglisi at the recent symposium: A Better Baroque. Thank you to all the alumni, colleagues and friends who presented.

05/01/2024

Thank you to all who came to the end-of-year award celebration. To those graduating with their bachelors, masters and Ph.D degrees in Art History, we are so proud of you Class of '24! 😁

04/13/2024

Sharing this wonderful opportunity!

❗Undergrads❗

Internship applications for Summer and Fall 2024 are open 🥳

Earn academic credit and work on the day-to-day departmental activities, research-based assignments, and other special projects that support the operations of the museum.

The application deadline is quickly approaching, apply today: https://go.rutgers.edu/zaminternships2024

03/21/2024

Rutgers Giving Day 2! Consider supporting the Department of Art History with a gift today! https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/art-history-dissertation/1181.html

03/20/2024

Rutgers Giving Days, an exciting 48-hour campaign, kicks off today, March 20 and extends through March 21. Consider making a gift to the Department of Art History to support our student research, travel, programming, and experience whilst at Rutgers University.
Use the link below to contribute:
https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/art-history-dissertation/1181.html

03/14/2024

Art History Major Elijah Reiss discovered and restored footage of the moon landing!!

https://www.facebook.com/reissrestorations/

Specializing in analog media conversion (tapes, films, slides, etc.) and digital photo restoration at affordable prices.

01/19/2024

Call for Applications

REDISCOVERING THE CULTURAL HERITAGE
OF UPPER SVANETI, GEORGIA
INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL WORKSHOP

Date: 26 July – 4 August 2024

Destination: Mestia, Svaneti

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024

Description
This project takes place in Upper Svaneti, the spectacular mountainous region of Western Georgia, which not only has an abundance and variety of cultural heritage, but also a unique way of life. Even today, the local population preserves various pre-Christian beliefs and rituals. In Upper Svaneti, medieval churches and residences with defense towers have been preserved in their original forms. Almost all these churches are decorated with paintings, and original treasuries are kept in most of them: medieval painted and revetted icons, crosses, ecclesiastic vessels created in local workshops or many other regions of the Christian East and the West. Exposure to this extraordinary material will provide all students of medieval art with an entirely new perspective on their field.

The ten-day workshop will enable ten PhD and MA students to visit significant monuments of cultural heritage in Upper Svaneti, to take part in discussions on-site, and to engage in various field activities.

The workshop will be held in English.

The International Cultural Workshop is organized by the Institute of Art History and Theory at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in cooperation with the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University and the Art History Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The project partner is the Svaneti Museum of History and-Ethnography.

The International Cultural Workshop (RCHUS) is funded under the US Embassy Georgia Cultural Small Grants Program.

Application period
22 January to 15 March 2024 (00:00/Georgian Time Zone: UTC + 4)
The selection results will be announced on 8 April.

Eligibility
Applicants of any nationality must currently be enrolled in an MA or PhD program in Medieval or Byzantine art history or a related field.

Documents to be submitted:
- Application form with other three documents:
- Curriculum vitae (with list of publications/presentations, maximum 3 pages)
- Cover letter outlining interest in the program (maximum 300 words)
- Recommendation letter

The application must be in English.

See here for Application form: https://forms.gle/GLAacswWY5VBHDrk7

Fees and Funding
The International Cultural Workshop (RCHUS) is free of charge: will cover travel from Tbilisi to Mestia, field trips, hotel accommodation and meals in Upper Svaneti.

The workshop participants must cover their own international flights to and from Georgia, and hotel accommodation in Tbilisi. However, there are limited funds for participating students in the project budget for partial covering the international transportation and accommodation in Tbilisi. Please clarify your need for funding on your Application form.

For further information, please contact: [email protected]

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07/12/2023

There is still room in
BYZANTINE ART
FALL 2023
Tuesday 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Friday 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM

3 credits
No pre-requisites

This course will explore art, architecture, paintings, and other visual culture produced in the Middle Ages in the Byzantine Empire. The pictorial and architectural styles that characterized Byzantine art, first codified in the 6th century, persisted with remarkable steadiness until 1453.

Students will learn to interpret the formal attributes, discuss the historical contexts, and assess the social functions of Byzantine art.

Students will learn to construct historical and theoretical arguments about religion and power in this long and important period of history.

06/12/2023

Video documentation of the end-of-the-semester exhibition curated, created and produced by the students of the Global to Gaia Vision class co-taught by Laura Weigert and Atif Akin, Art History and Art & Design Departments in Spring 2023 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Video documentation of the end-of-the-semester exhibition curated, created and produced by the students of the Global to Gaia Vision class co-taught by Laura Weigert…