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The Robert and Nancy Hall Graduate Curatorial Fellowship / Walters Museum of Art, 2025-2026

The Hall Graduate Curatorial Fellowship provides a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University the opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the museum profession and to contribute meaningfully to the […]


Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, with Stephen Campbell & Elizabeth Cropper, Feb 4

Book cover of Leonardo Da Vinci: Untraceable Life by Stephen J Campbell

Stephen Campbell, Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, will join with Elizabeth Cropper, former Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advance Study in the Visual Arts and Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, to celebrate his book, LEONARDO DA VINCI: AN UNTRACEABLE LIFE, on its publication date with this February 4 event held at Bird in Hand.


PhD Candidate Rachel Young offers new insights into Andreani’s Chiaroscuro woodcut

Chiaroscuro woodcut of several idealized figures in motion, holding each other set in a classical Italianate city with many arched walkways and a clear vanishing point. Warm tones depicting the Abduction of the Sabine Women.

History of Art PhD Candidate Rachel Young‘s article “Andrea Andreani’s Abduction of the Sabine Women after Giambologna” was published in the December 2024 issue of Print Quarterly. Drawn from dissertation […]


Book Announcement: Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life by Stephen J. Campbell

Book cover of Leonardo Da Vinci: Untraceable Life by Stephen J Campbell

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life by Stephen J. Campbell, set for release on February 4, 2025, by Princeton University Press. […]


PhD Alumna Spotlights Italian Artist and Activist Nanni Balestrini in New Article

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The Department of the History of Art is delighted to celebrate PhD alumna Marica Antonucci on her recent publication, Nanni Balestrini, collage, and the aesthetics of operaismo, featured in the October […]


Alumna appointed inaugural Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at Dallas Museum of Art

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We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Emily Friedman, a distinguished Ph.D. alumna in the History of Art, has been appointed the inaugural Allen and Kelli Questrom Assistant Curator of […]


PhD Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship with AGHI

We are delighted to announce that Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen, successfully defended her dissertation, “Untitled: Nasreen Mohamedi, Geeta Kapur, and Art History’s Time,” last month. Meghaa has been awarded a prestigious […]


PhD Bianca Hand joins UC, Davis faculty

We are thrilled to announce that Bianca Hand, who earned her PhD in summer 2024, has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis in […]


Professor Dan Weiss to lead University-wide arts initiative

Across the university, art and arts programming abound. A new initiative led by Dan Weiss, former president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Homewood Professor of […]


Professor Schopp Receives Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship

We are thrilled to announce that Caroline Lillian Schopp, a distinguished member of our faculty, has been honored with the prestigious Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship awarded […]