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Graduate seminar in the Yale Center for British Art
Kyoto Kano School, Japan, Scenes from the Tale of Genji, 1625-1650. Yale University Art Gallery
Undergraduate seminar in the Yale University Art Gallery
Haida, Northwest Coast, Canada. Basketry hat. Peabody Museum, Yale University
Frederic Edwin Church, Mt. Ktaadn, 1853. Yale University Art Gallery
Students at the Metropolitan Museum with Prof Robert Nelson’s course Art of Byzantium, 850-1200, Fall 2015
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Undergraduate seminar with Prof. Nicola Suthor in the Prints and Drawings Study Room, Yale University Art Gallery
Tino di Camaino, Three Princesses, ca. 1325-35, Yale University Art Gallery
Museum and the Nation seminar taught by Prof Kishwar Rivzi at I.M.Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar

Welcome From The Chair

A NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

We regret to announce that the Yale Department of the History of Art will not accept applications to our graduate program during the 2021 admissions cycle.

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News

DEPARTMENT APPOINTS NEW PROFESSOR SPECIALIZING IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

September 22, 2020

Dr Morgan Ng will join the History of Art Department in Fall 2021 as an Assistant Professor. He researches the interplay between architecture, visual culture, and the technical sciences in Renaissance Italy and its global networks.

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Materializing Race: An “Unconference” on Objects and Identity in #VastEarlyAmerica

August 20, 2020

Co-founded by Dr. Cynthia Chin (Fred W.

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In memory of Walter Cahn (1933-2020)

June 2, 2020

We mourn the loss of Walter Cahn, a distinguished scholar of medieval art who served as teacher and mentor to generations of Yale students from1965 until his retirement in 2002.