An ideal bit of holiday reading about photography is Roland Barthes’ classic study of the medium, Camera Lucida. Its a short book that, unlike … Read more

  Ben Thomas, Reader in History of Art, has just published a new book on Raphael, co-edited with Catherine Whistler of the Ashmolean Museum in … Read more

Earlier this year, before the first lockdown, the students taking the History of Art module Drawing: History and Practice were lucky enough to see the … Read more

The Baroque period can be characterised by an ‘intense religiosity’ or emotion in all facets of its forms whether it be theatre, painting, or sculpture. … Read more

In these video interviews, Vanessa Brassey (King’s College, London) talks to Dr Claire Anscomb about what it’s like to be both a professional philosopher and … Read more

A pensive Roman senator stands somewhat forlornly on a pedestal in the easily overlooked Pimlico Gardens on the north bank of the river Thames. Poorly … Read more

As part of Routledge’s Philosophers on Film series, Hans Maes and Katrien Schaubroeck are editing a volume on the so-called Before trilogy directed by Richard … Read more

Earlier this year I was listening to an episode of Black Mass Appeal, a podcast created by members of the US-based Satanic Temple (BMA Episode … Read more

  Eve Kalyva, newly appointed lecturer in History of Art at Kent, has received a prestigious Paul Mellon research grant to support her research on … Read more

  Tom Henry, formerly Professor of History of Art at Kent, and Claudia la Malfa, will be discussing New Perspectives on Raphael in an event … Read more