The Rintels Prize recognizes an outstanding thesis written in the field of literature, language, philosophy, or the social sciences.
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The Art History Department at Dartmouth will host two lectures during fall term 2024: the Annual Riley Family Class of 2013 Lecture on October 17 and the the Annual Rosenthal Lecture on November 7.
[more]The faculty of the Art History Department join our colleagues across the college to voice our deep concerns and disagreement with the decision on the part of President Beilock to use a militarized police force to arrest students, faculty, staff, and community members who were engaged in peaceful protest on the Dartmouth Green on the evening of May 1, 2024.
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In artistic traditions that stretch back to antiquity, lions have been associated with strength and authority. The figure of the lion in nineteenth-century France stood at a crossroads between these historical meanings and contemporary developments that recast the animal's significance, such as the literal presence of lions in public menageries.
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Digital models help to visualize complexities heretofore unapproachable through more conventional methods of art history. The seductive qualities of these models—which tend to transcend those of words—are increasingly untempered by their digital and thus potentially alien nature. Modeling technologies—including, but not limited to, GIS, photogrammetry, laser scanning, VR, AR, or BIM—can assist not only in visualizing, but also in measuring, reconstructing and, thus, analyzing works of art and architecture. With the use of these tools come both challenges and opportunities.
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