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Marisa Bass has won the 2020 Roland H. Bainton Book Prizes for the best book in Art and Music History from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference for her most recent monograph Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (P

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History of Art Course Features in Yale News

October 26, 2020

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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.

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Surveys and Undergraduate Art History at Yale

January 27, 2020

For more than half a century, Yale’s History of Art Department has been dedicated to “the study of all forms of art, architecture, and visual culture in their social and historical contexts.”