Research Seminars
Current Research Projects
The Composition of Byzantine Glass Mosaic Tesserae
This is a Leverhulme Trust funded International Network involving collaboration with the British Museum, the Benaki Museum in Athens and The University of Bologna in Ravenna.
Parham House
Dr Jayne Kirk, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History, is working on a two-year project to write a book on the architectural and social history of Parham House, West Sussex, under the auspices of the Heritage Lottery funded project ' England's past for everyone'. This is co-ordinated by the Victoria County History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.'
The Centre for the Study of Art and Travel
This new research centre was set up, under the direction of Geoff Quilley, at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, in 2007. Its aims are: to investigate art and travel and their related histories, mainly in British culture from the early-modern period up to the present day, and to develop this as a distinct area for interdisciplinary research; to establish stronger links between museums and academic institutions through opening up access to the Museum's collections, and related collections in other institutions, for scholarly research; and to provide a forum for intellectual exchange among a broad
Recent Publications
Dr Meaghan Clarke:
Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905, (Ashgate 2005).
'(Re)viewing Whistler and Sargent', RACAR (XXX:1-2).
"Bribery with sherry' and 'the influence of weak tea': Arbiters of Taste in the late Victorian and Edwardian Press", Visual Culture in Britain (6:2, 2005).
Dr Flora Dennis:
At Home in Renaissance Italy, co-edited with Marta Ajmar-Wollheim (London, V&A Publications, 2006)
Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates, co-edited with Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Ann Matchette (Oxford, Blackwell, 2007)
Professor Maurice Howard:
The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England (Yale University Press January 2008)
Professor Liz James:
Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (Leicester University Press, 2001)
Art and Text in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Introduction, and paper, '"And shall these mute stones speak?" Text as image'.
Icon and Word. The power of images in Byzantium (Ashgate, 2003), editor with Antony Eastmond, and contributor, "Introduction: Icon and Word", xxix-xxxiv, and "Art and Lies: Text, image and imagination in the medieval world", 59-72.
'Byzantine glass mosaic tesserae: some material considerations', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 30,1 (2006), 29-48
Professor David Mellor:
Dr Michelle O'Malley:
The Material Renaissance (co-editor with Evelyn Welch), Manchester University Press, 2007
'Quality and the Pressures of Reputation: Rethinking Perugino', The Art Bulletin, vol. 89 (2007), pp. 676-695.
'Perugino's Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis for Santa Maria dei Servi, Perugia', co-author with Carol Plazzotta, Ashok Roy, Raymond White and Martin Wyld, National Gallery Technical Bulletin, vol. 27 (2006), pp. 72-95.
The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy, Yale University Press, 2005
Dr Geoff Quilley:
'The lie of the land: slavery and the aesthetics of imperial landscape in eighteenth-century British art', in Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth (eds.), Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum (Aldershot: Lund Humphries in association with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2007), pp. 118-35
co-edited with Tim Barringer and Douglas Fordham, Art and the British Empire (Manchester University Press, 2007
