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Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims at creating several maps needed for a publication on the the trade and cultural connections between the Roman Mediterranean and Ancient India (1ct c. BCE to 6th c. CE...

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims at creating a born-digital catalogue of Byzantine boxes made of ivory, bone, and wood. These objects, dated between the 10th and the 12th centuries, reveal an unusual side of Byzantium. They demonstrate that the Byzantines valued merrymaking, eroticism and the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome...

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This position entails tasks associated with researching in the humanities. It is well-suited for students who can work independently and are willing to dedicate at least of 3-5 hours of time in their week...

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

HANDCOLOR is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. HANDCOLOR is now in preparation for publication in 2027 by the George Eastman Museum (Rochester...

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

In 2023 I curated Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) April 12-July 30, 2023 with the assistance of my graduate advisee Vanessa Jackson. The exhibition featured my extensive collection of caricatures and cartes- de-visite of...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The early seventeenth-century Italian artist Caravaggio painted a series of works for a chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. The altarpiece and the two lateral paintings are the subject of a chapter in my book "Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics." My current research project returns to...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

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Beato Antonio Baldinucci (Florence 1665 – Lazio 1717), son of the art historian to the Medici court, was a Jesuit missionary in Lazio, known for his penitential missions, involving carrying a cross, flagellation and bonfires of the vanities. During these internal missions, Baldinucci carried with him a copy of a painting...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The French Huguenot ceramicist Bernard Palissy’s is famous for his casting of living specimens (amphibians and reptiles) for his plates. He was also a prolific writer, revealing his research in salt flats and his observation of fossils in the mountains. Palissy’s Discours admirable (1580) is a dialogue between Theory and...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Simone Vouet was an emigré artist in Rome in the 1620s before he returned to France and became a major painter in Paris, most notably serving Anne d'Autriche, the mother of Louis III. This research project concerns the artist's production in Rome, most notably his execution...