{"id":2599,"date":"2019-07-12T15:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:18:23","slug":"research-project-on-raphael-wins-oxfords-public-engagement-with-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/07\/12\/research-project-on-raphael-wins-oxfords-public-engagement-with-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Research project on Raphael wins Oxford\u2019s Public Engagement with Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Raphael &#8211; The Drawings<\/em>, a Leverhulme-funded research project, that was co-organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/thomas.html\">Dr Ben Thomas<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/hpa.html\">Department of Art History<\/a> with colleagues from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\">University of Oxford<\/a>, won a Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Award for Public Engagement with Research in the Project category at the University of Oxford. The prize was awarded at a ceremony earlier this week, Wednesday 10 July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year research project aimed to transform our understanding of how Raphael drew, employing an innovative multi-disciplinary approach to the close study of his drawings.<\/p>\n<p>An exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\/\">Ashmolean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\/event\/raphael-drawings\"><em>Raphael: The Drawings<\/em><\/a>, embodied the essential findings and conclusions of the project\u2019s work, bringing together 120 drawings in three strands: invention; orchestration and expression in which Raphael\u2019s experimental approach, visual strategies and graphic language were highlighted. The exhibition attracted 67,000 visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Ben was co-organiser of the project team with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjc.ox.ac.uk\/discover\/people\/dr-catherine-whistler\/\">Professor Catherine Whistler<\/a>, supported by the project research assistant Angelamaria Aceto.<\/p>\n<p>The project is detailed on page 10 of the research awards brochure here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/sites\/files\/oxford\/media_wysiwyg\/VCPERAWARDSBROCHURE2019.pdf\">www.ox.ac.uk\/sites\/files\/oxford\/media_wysiwyg\/VCPERAWARDSBROCHURE2019.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raphael &#8211; The Drawings, a Leverhulme-funded research project, that was co-organised by Dr Ben Thomas in the Department of Art History with colleagues from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/07\/12\/research-project-on-raphael-wins-oxfords-public-engagement-with-research-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168429,50209,124,222289,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}