Here’s an attention-grabbing summer season conference which is taking form for Summer 2022. A group of scholars from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester and the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, are putting together a conference on Fat Bodies in the Early Modern World. A call for papers has been revealed with plenty of prospects for art historians too it seems. Always recognised as a grasp print from the moment of its look around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is considered one of Rembrandt’s most compositionally advanced and visually stunning works. Interesting news from Italy that scholars from the University of Bologna and the Spanish agency CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas) have invented and patented a new method to treat painted frescos.
On view now at Contemporary Calgary, Simone Elizabeth Saunders reimagines Black femininity and Afro-diasporic narratives with vibrant, hand-tufted portraits. What artists need is to undergo a artistic transformative …