Robin Jensen Examines Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity

What does early Christian imagery reveal about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, addresses this theme in her latest book, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual and Theological Dimensions (Baker Academic, 2012). Jensen illumines the theological meaning of baptism by examining the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 23, 2012 in HART

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Vivien Fryd Awarded Visiting Professorship for Fall 2012

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art and chair of the department, will be a visiting professor next fall at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. Fryd was awarded the visiting professorship by The Terra Foundation for American Art. Fryd will teach two courses—American Art Since 1945 and American…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 14, 2012 in HART

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Student Research Symposium Slated for April 18

Angela Romano, Elizabeth Furman, Christi Weinhuff, and Margot Danis are the featured speakers at the second annual Student Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m. in Cohen 203, with a reception in the atrium following the event. Paper topics include The Influence of Mathematics on Egyptian and Greek Sculpture (Elizabeth Furman); Ethical and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 14, 2012 in Events, HART

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James Wescoat to Address Water as Unifying Theme in Mughal Landscape

James Wescoat, MIT’s Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, will address “Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape” in a public lecture on Thursday, April 5, 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. An expert on the grand Mughal gardens built in the 16th and 17th centuries in what is now India and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 2, 2012 in HART, Lectures

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Betsey Robinson Receives Prestigious Book Award

Betsey Robinson’s book, Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia, volume 2 in the “Ancient Art and Architecture in Context” series of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton University, 2011), has received the 2011 PROSE award for Anthropology and Archaeology by the Professional Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 21, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Arts of Japan Exhibit Opens January 12 in the Fine Arts Gallery

In observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Asian American Student Association at Vanderbilt University, the Fine Arts Gallery will hold an opening reception for its winter exhibit, The Arts of Japan, on Thursday, January 12, from 5 to 7 pm in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. More than 1,300…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 11, 2012 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART

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Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences: Focus of Goldberg Lecture on January 19

Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History, University of Iowa, will deliver the spring 2012 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture on Thursday, January 19, at 4:10 p.m. in room 203 of Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. Her lecture is entitled Elective Affinities: Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences from Girodet…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 10, 2012 in HART, Lectures

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Professor Thomas B. Brumbaugh, 1921-2011

It is with regret that we announce the death of Thomas Brendle Brumbaugh, professor emeritus, on December 18, 2011. He retired in 1985 from a lengthy career teaching art history survey, American art, nineteenth-century art, and Indian art at Vanderbilt, where he received the 1968 Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. His scholarly…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 3, 2012 in HART

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Vivien Fryd Presented Lecture at UW-Madison in October

Professor Vivien G. Fryd was one of a select few alumni from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s graduate program to present a talk at the symposium, “Art History as a Window on Global Culture: New Research,” celebrating 85 years of education, research and enrichment for generations of students, faculty, and community at large. Her lecture, “Ringgold’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 30, 2011 in HART

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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Featured on Campus and at the Frist

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Cuban post-revolutionary era, will lead a conversation about race in her native country on Wednesday, October 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Cohen Hall 203. Joining Campos-Pons in a panel discussion entitled Exile, Memory and Identity: A Conversation about Race in Cuba are…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 12, 2011 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures

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