Department of the History of Art

Claire Wintle, University of Brighton, Centre for Design History will speak on Shelving the Empire: Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage. Talk will be in person, with reception to follow, and on-line, as part of AAP Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management’s Curated Conversations. For those joining us on-line please register here: […]

Pietro Montani's narrative and ideas on the "classical" dimension of Ottoman architecture In the framework of nineteenth-century exchanges between Europe and the Ottoman world, the enigmatic Pietro Montani (1828-1887) occupied a unique position. Born in Trieste to parents from Mergozzo (Piedmont), he lived since 1832 with his family in Galata, the Genoese, "Levantine" and cosmopolitan […]