{"id":688,"date":"2019-07-17T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=688"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:02:05","slug":"research-project-on-raphael-wins-oxfords-public-engagement-with-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2019\/07\/17\/research-project-on-raphael-wins-oxfords-public-engagement-with-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Research project on Raphael wins Oxford&#8217;s Public Engagement Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raphael \u2013 The Drawings, 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 University of Oxford, won a Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Award for Public Engagement with Research in the Project category at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\">University of Oxford<\/a>. 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.<br \/>\nAn exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\/\">Ashmolean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\/event\/raphael-drawings\">Raphael: The Drawings<\/a>, embodied the essential findings and conclusions of the project&#8217;s work, bringing together 120 drawings in three strands: invention; orchestration and expression in which Raphael&#8217;s experimental approach, visual strategies and graphic language were highlighted. The exhibition attracted 67,000 visitors.<br \/>\nBen 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 \u2013 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\/memsnews\/2019\/07\/17\/research-project-on-raphael-wins-oxfords-public-engagement-with-research-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}