Sir Walter Scott Medal Awarded to Kate Rudy
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy, is to present Professor Kathryn Rudy with the award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to art history.
School news
Join us on 17 February for: The challenges of cultural democracy - St Fagans National Museum of History
David Anderson, Director General of Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, presents ‘The challenges of cultural democracy: St Fagans National Museum of History’.
Agnès Bos publishes 'Mobilier du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance La Collection du musée du Louvre', December 2019
Dr Agnès Bos publishes her recent book 'Mobilier du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance La Collection du musée du Louvre'
Apply now for the R&A Ransome Scholarship 2020 Entry
The R&A Ransome Scholarship is available to graduate students from Canada, Mexico and the USA entering a one-year taught postgraduate course: MLitt, MRes, MSc.
Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri publishes 'Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Physichromies: Between Centre and Periphery', Autumn 2019
This article offers a different account of the Physichromies, arguing that Cruz-Diez’s engagement with the language of European modernism remained closely connected to both Venezuelan and ‘American’ forms of identity.
Join us on 11 December for: Talking Things - Early Modern Woodblocks
Talking Things is an interdisciplinary discussion group about material culture, bringing together scholars from a range of Schools who work on material objects.
Join us on the 20th November for: New thoughts on Adrian Vanson and Adam de Colone: technical study of works attributed to two Jacobean émigré artists
Speaker: Caroline Rae (University of Glasgow, Lecturer in Technical Art History) Wednesday 20 November, 4pm, School V
Join us on the 7th - 8th November for: International Conference on Community Heritage
An international conference will be held on Friday 8th November at Parliament Hall, providing a platform for the culmination of research workshops project funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Laura Moretti publishes 'Thinking 3D: Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present', October 2019
This book tells the story of the development of the techniques used to communicate three-dimensional forms on the two-dimensional page and contemporary media.
Linda Goddard publishes Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin with Yale University Press, September 2019.
An original study of Gauguin’s writings, unfolding their central role in his artistic practice and negotiation of colonial identity