TOC: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Volume 17, Nr. 2: Down to the Ground https://arthist.net/archive/51691

The FINAL programme is out: forarthistory.org.uk/session-ques...

Dualism is the normative paradigm in describing the worldview in China: new versus old; overseas versus mainland. There is a famous saying in Chinese - practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. Let's see if this dualistic thought can still be normative or be replaced by a more dynamic view.

My panel for the 2026 AAH conference is finalised: forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2... Speakers include: Wu Tao, China Academy of Art/Free University of Berlin Matthew Robert Shirfield, Trinity College Dublin Eunchae Lee, The University of Edinburgh; and Han Zhang, Central Academy of Fine Arts

🎟 Art History Conference 2026 tickets on sale now! Early bird tickets are now available for the AAH’s Annual Conference, taking place this April in #Cambridge, in partnership with @cam.ac.uk ’s History of Art department. TICKETS & INFO: https://loom.ly/84fvVEc

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #sinology

CONF: Dante und die Farben (Regensburg, 29-31 Jan 26) https://arthist.net/archive/51290

We are delighted to announce that ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico, acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, is the winner of the Apollo Acquisition of the Year award, which is supported by BRAFA apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...

When browsing where my Academia visitors come from, a country called Seychelles caught my eyes. I wonder who in that small island would be interested in Renaissance art....

CONF: Color in Motion: Transfers, Transformations, Translations (Geneva, 8-10 Dec 25) https://arthist.net/archive/51126

#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD

CONF: Zooming In and Out: Reconsidering Hans Memling (Brugge, 20-21 Nov 25) https://arthist.net/archive/50832

CfP for a panel on the polemic of illusion and materiality in the transcultural context for the upcoming AAH annual conference at Cambridge. This panel will be convened by me and Sumi from Kyoto University: forarthistory.org.uk/questioning-...

ANN: Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar (Oxford, 30 Oct - 4 Dec 25) https://arthist.net/archive/50739

CFP: RACAR Special Issue: Dead Matter and Animated Materials in Art​​ https://arthist.net/archive/50540

CFP: The Medici and the Dominicans (Florence, 30 Jan 26) https://arthist.net/archive/50619

First ever exhibition dedicated to the cryptic Flemish (or Dutch?) painter Matthias Stom opens in Brescia Sept. 18.

Coming later this month: our Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod Marder. It's really two books in one: a translation (mine) and historiographic edition of Brauer & Wittkower's 1931 study, and a modern treatment of Bernini's architectural drawings. www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...

Applications are open for the Renaissance Society of America's short-term research fellowships, including many that give preference to contingent faculty and independent scholars -- apply by September 16th, applicants must be @rsaorg.bsky.social members: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern

My new post is out!

If my memory doesn't fail me, I still remember seeing a Savoldo fresco in Bresia.

Found some interesting stuff in the Mogao Caves. How can the absence of ground colour solidify the preservation of the foreground figures? Normally, the original colour of the figures would darken over time. Due to the flow of the air through the plain wall, the original colour remains.

I'm now in Dunhuang now! The climate is drier and warmer than Hangzhou. I will go to see some caves tomorrow. Looking forward to my three-day trip.

'Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond' In Oxford, 16-17 September. Booking now open. I'm honoured (my goodness, I really am, so grateful to this amazing roster of colleagues) web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...

‘Humanists knew that they were imitating the ancients when they sat and talked in libraries. But they knew little about what these lost collections looked like or included.’ Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tiepolo should draw more scholarly attention! I recently translated an article by Damian Dombrowski into Chinese, which has been published by meishu guancha (art observation).

TOC: Artibus et Historiae no. 90 (XLV), 2024 https://arthist.net/archive/49611

It's been a long road since our first letter! Your article was the first we discovered! You sent me to Nancy Steinhardt who introduced us to Jeff Cody who became a dear family friend. He lectured on LJP in Paris! And this year LJP had his first solo exhibit at the CAA, the school he cofounded!

The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

ANN: Aby Warburg an the Afterlife of Antiquity (online, 7 Jul-18 Aug 25) https://arthist.net/archive/49437

CFP: AAH Conference: Call for Sessions (Cambridge, 8-10 Apr 26) https://arthist.net/archive/49482

Artemisia Gentileschi's "Susanna and the Elders," recently rediscovered and restored, on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh www.rct.uk/event/artemi...

Renaissance Lives: Memling and the Merchants Join Mitzi Kirkland-Ives & Rembrandt Duits for a round table on the merchant-class audiences of Hans Memling’s work in 15th-century Bruges. Online | 29 May, 5:30–7pm (UK) Free – book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renai... ‪@reaktionbooks.bsky.social‬

I read that lovely book, _Taste and the Antique_, some years ago. What a rabbit hole! And here, to celebrate a new edition, a call for papers.⬇️

Please consider joining us for the Leonardo da Vinci Society’s Annual Lecture, by Dr Francesca Borgo, on ‘Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing’, on 21 May, 5:30pm, at The Courtauld Institute, Vernon Square, London. RSVP here: www.leonardodavincisociety.org.uk/event-detail...

🌟 Temperance – A Card of Balance, Harmony, and Moderation 🌟 Temperance from the Tarot de Marseille Gassmann deck (c.1865). Representing balance, patience, and the art of integration, this card calls us to approach life thoughtfully, with harmony and moderation. #Temperance #TarotExhibition #Tarot

UNSETTLED GROUND 30 APR 5pm Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College Free admission Join us as Prof Erin Pauwels starts her fascinating Terra Lectures with 'Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance' Find out more www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Another public talk as part of our Summer programme! 🌻☀️ On Painting Everything: Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age Prof Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago 5pm, 8 May Lincoln College, Oxford Free and open to all www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/june-a... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social