Exhibition explores Tudor legacies in contemporary art
20 Feb 2026 ‘Tudor Contemporary’, the first multidisciplinary exhibition to focus on the legacies of Tudor history and art in contemporary artistic practice is on...
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News from the Department of the History of Art.
Dragon-slaying saints performed green-fingered medieval miracles, new study reveals
11 Dec 2025 Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian order once made swamps fertile, brought trees back to life and multiplied cabbages. A new book by Dr Krisztina Ilko...
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Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life
03 Aug 2020 Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240...
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Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde
10 May 2019 New exhibition puts the University's collections of two leading figures in Modern British Art into context for the first time.
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Kettle's Yard is back
12 Feb 2018 As Kettle's Yard opens its doors following a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment and transformation of its gallery spaces, the work of 38...
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Animating objects: what material culture can tell us about domestic devotions
24 Oct 2017 Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit to us today. But understanding what...
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Believing is Seeing: a Cambridge Shorts film
09 Nov 2016 Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological...
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Russian art in the limelight: paintings and portraits that tell remarkable stories
28 Apr 2016 An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia’s legendary creative figures. Russia and the Arts, which draws...
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Virtual Florence: religious art is ‘restored’ to its original setting
10 Mar 2016 A team of experts has pieced together the architectural context of two treasures of Renaissance art in the National Gallery collection. The research...
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How artisans used colour printing to add another dimension to woodcuts
21 Jan 2016 An exhibition of early colour printing in Germany shines a light on the ways in which technology jump-started a revolution in image making. The...
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