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Reconstructions of Roman and Byzantine Artworks

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims reconstructing no-longer extant or fragmentarily preserved Roman and Byzantine artworks...

 Arts & Humanities

Byzantine Secular Boxes --a digital catalogue

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...

 Arts & Humanities

Research Assistant

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Tasks associated with researching in the humanities...

 Arts & Humanities

For Want of Color. Handpainted photography

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

My new book 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. Research entails locating pertinent sources such as paint kits, how-to books and...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences   150 Years of Women at Berkeley

Producing an Art History Book: Jusepe Ribera in 17th-century Naples

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Spanish artist Jusepe Ribera interrogated the media of painting, drawing and etching in the vice-royalty of Naples. This publication project looks at the artist's In Ribera's work and its place in the Spanish Empire. His recourse to classical mythology as well as the depiction...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

Refugee Image: A Madonna from Frascati(Italy) in Colonial Mexico (Zacatecas)

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

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...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

Between Theory and Practice: Bernard Palissy’s Faïence

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

Status: Check back for status     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...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

Simone Vouet: A French artist in early seventeenth-century Rome

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...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

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