A researcher of the art of the Middle East from the Hellenistic period (the end of the 4th century BCE) to the beginning of the Abbasid period (middle of the 8th century CE).>>>
A researcher of the art of the Middle East from the Hellenistic period (the end of the 4th century BCE) to the beginning of the Abbasid period (middle of the 8th century CE).>>>
Prof. Rina Talgam, the Alice and Edward Winant Family Professor of Art History, received her Ph.D from The Hebrew University in 1996 and joined the faculty the following year. Her research interests include the art of the Middle East from the Hellenistic period to the Umayyad period, specialization in mosaic pavements, and the mutual influences between polytheism, Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity and Islam, the emergence and sources of Umayyad art, and ancient synagogues. Her books include: The Mosaics of the House of Dionysos at Sepphoris, written with Zeev Weiss (2004), The Stylistic Origins of Umayyad Sculpture and Architectural Decoration (2004) and Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagan, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (2014). Rina Talgam received several awards from the Hebrew University: in 2013, the Milken Prize for years of excellence in teaching, in 2015 the prestigious Polonsky Prize for creativity and originality in the humanistic disciplines, in 2016 she was awarded the Narkiss Prize for the research of Jewish art and in 2018 the Rector Prize for excellence in research, teaching and contribution to the community. Prof. Talgam was a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting Professor at Yale University and the Gregoriana University in Rome.
A researcher of the visual art of the Middle Ages in broad historical and cultural contexts.>>>
Prof. Shalev-Eyni is especially interested in illuminated manuscripts, in the interaction between images and texts, between Jews and Christians, between East and West and between Art and History. She if the author of Jews among Christians: Hebrew Book Illumination from Lake Constance, Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 41(Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), and co-author of The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth Century Illustrated Passover Haggadah from the Monastery of Tegernsee (Codex Hebrew 200 from the Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015).
Her articles have appeared in leading periodicals.
Reception hour: Wednesday 12:15 by previous appointment.
A scholar of Late Antique and Early Medieval Art.>>>
Prof. Noga-Banai is interested in Pilgrimage Art, in the connections between Jewish and Christian Art and between Jerusalem and Rome. She studies both portable and monumental art around the Mediterranean basin. She has published studies on art and architecture in the Holy Land, in Italy and in Western Europe, including Merovingian and Carolingian art. Her books, The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries, and Scared Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome, were published in 2008 and 2018 respectively by Oxford University Press. Recently she has also been dealing with modern commemoration in Germany from a medievalist perspective. Her book, A Medievalist's Gaze. Christian Visual Rhetoric in Modern German Memorials (1950–2000), was published recently by Peter Lang (2022).
A researcher into the art and theory of art and architecture in the Renaissance and the early Modern period.>>>
Dr. Kantor-Kazovsky wrote her doctorate at the Hebrew University, under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Barasch, on the artist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Antiquarian culture in Rome in the 18th century. Recently she has also been researching and writing on the cultural Cold War and the development of Modernism in Russia in the second half of the 20th century.
Reception hour: Tuesday 17:15-18:15 by previous appointment.
A researcher of visual culture from the discovery of photography to today.>>> He began his work in the Bezalel Academy in the Department for Visual Communication, and went on to study Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University and to do his doctorate at Yale University. Since 2013 Gal has been Curator of Photography at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In the Department of Art History he teaches the History and Theory of Photography, Contemporary Art as seen through Art Criticism, and questions concerning Museum Research. In his articles and lectures Gal stresses the role of the spectator in the field of art, the connections between education and photography, and the social and political influences on photography in the present day.
An art historian and archeologist who specializes in Islamic material culture. >>>
As an archeologist in Jerusalem Dr. Da'adli has studied the Mamila cemetery, the Al Qaymuriyya Mausoleum in Jerusalem, the quarters around the Cotton Merchants Market and the Beit HaBad Market. As an art historian he has written his doctorate on the school of painting that developed in the city of Herat in today's Afghanistan, in the time of Sultan Husayn, last of the Timurid rulers.
Recently he has been researching the wall paintings of the Ummayad Palace in Jericho, trying to reconstruct a series of paintings there that have never been properly published since the excavations done under the British Mandate. Another recent research project concerns Lod, where local excavations have been taking place for years. As part of that research, he is trying to understand the city's civic structure near the end of the Ottoman Period.
Dr. Da'adli was a Buber scholar from 2012 to 2015. In 2016, he received a fellowship from the Council of Higher Education to encourage young researchers who have been accepted to teach in Israel's universities.
M.A. student specializing in the art of the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period. She is especially interested in fusing art with philosophical ideas, and will analyze representations of women in medical texts of the early modern period. Thesis advisor: Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky. Madeleine is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
Alexander is a third year B.A student in the Department of Art History and the History Department. He is especially interested in Late Antiquity and Medieval Art. Alexander is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
M.A. student, specializing in body and peformace art in political and social movements. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Gal Ventura. Nitsan is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
M.A. student, specializing in the art of Francisco Goya, mainly his prints, exploring the subject of trauma and visual language. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky. Daniel is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
M.A. student specializing in the art of the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period. She is especially interested in fusing art with philosophical ideas, and will analyze representations of women in medical texts of the early modern period. Thesis advisor: Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky. Madeleine is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses. "Pictorial representation in ancient Near Eastern Art in the pre-classical periods (circa 3500-500 BCE)" and "Introduction to Classical Art: Deciphering Visual Expression in Ancient Cultures"
Alexander is a third year B.A student in the Department of Art History and the History Department. He is especially interested in Late Antiquity and Medieval Art. Alexander is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses."Art in the Mediterranean Basin, 4th-7th Centuries" and "Medieval Art between East and West, 7th-13th Centuries"
M.A. student, specializing in body and peformace art in political and social movements. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Gal Ventura. Nitsan is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses."Modern Art and Visual Culture: From the French Revolution to 1900" and "Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art: From Modernism to Modernity"
M.A. student, specializing in the art of Francisco Goya, mainly his prints, exploring the subject of trauma and visual language. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky. Daniel is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
"European Society 1300-1500 in the Mirror of Visual Arts" and "Art Between the Church and the Scientific Revolution 1500-1700".
Prof. Cohen-Mushlin is an expert on Latin and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and researches Jewish architecture from Antiquity to Modern times.>>>
An expert in Jewish Art in general, and specifically during the Middle Ages.>>> Prof. Revel-Neher served both as Head of the Department of Art History and of the Interdisciplinary Program of the Faculty of Humanities. She held the Nicolas Landau Chair for Art History. Her research dealt especially with Biblical iconography in the Middle Ages, the Jewish-Christian controversy as expressed in Medieval Art, and the image of the Jew in the Medieval period. These studies were published in 3 books and many articles. She was a visiting scholar at many different institutions around the world, from Bar-Ilan University, to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris, and in institutions in Bologna, Mexico, etc.
A scholar of Medieval Art.>>> Prof. Kuehnel has published books and articles on art and architecture connected to the traditions of the holy sites in Israel and Europe, as well as medieval scientific visual images. She has been invited as a guest in leading research institutions around the world (CESM Poitiers; Free University Berlin; Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome; Max Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz; Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies) and has won prestigious prizes and research grants (GIF; Thyssen; Max-Planck; ERC). Prof. Kuenel has served as head of the Department of Art History and founded the European Forum at the Hebrew University, which she directed for many years. She has taught generations of students, some of whom lecture and do research in leading universities in Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheva) or serve as curators at the Israel Museum.
An expert in Modern, Contemporary and Israeli Art.>>> She studies art with an emphasis on Psychology and is interested in questions of identity in Jewish art, among Jewish artists who hide their identity, and among Dadaists (Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, Hans Richter).
Prof. Cohen-Mushlin is an expert on Latin and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and researches Jewish architecture from Antiquity to Modern times.>>>
She received her doctorate from the Warburg Institute in London and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1981 until she retired in 2006 she taught in the Department of Art History, and published 3 books on Latin illuminated manuscripts and many articles. She collaborated with other scholars on producing facsimile editions of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, and during 12 years edited the annual Jewish Art. From 1991 to 2006 she was the head of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University, and founded its section for Architecture, leading many delegations of researchers to document the Jewish Art which was falling into ruins throughout the world and led several important research projects. In 1994, Prof. Cohen-Mushlin founded the Bet Tfila Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe at the Technical University of Braunschweig "House of Prayer" and she remains its Director. In 2009 she was given a medal of honor by the President of Germany.
A researcher of Modern Art and Modern Jewish Art. Israel Prize winner for Art History in 2004.>>> Prof. Amishai-Maisels was born in New York. In 1959 she and her family made Aliya, and she studied simultaneously at the Bezalel Art Academy and the Hebrew University. In 1960 she returned to the United States to complete her B.A. and M.A. at Columbia University. In 1962 she returned to Israel and began teaching at the Hebrew University. In 1970 she received her doctorate, Summa cum laude, at the Hebrew University, writing on Gauguin's Religious Themes. She has published many books and articles on Modern and Modern Jewish Art, and in 1993 published her important book, Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts. She continues to work on these subjects after she retired. While working at the University, she was twice Head of the Department of Art History and served as Head of the Institute of Arts, Languages and Literatures and as head of the Institute of Arts and Letters.
A researcher of Jewish Art and Folklore (PhD. in Art History, University of California Los Angeles, 1987).>>>
Prof. Sabar lectures in the Departments of Jewish and Comparative Folklore and Art History. His areas of research include Jewish Art and Folk Art, material culture and ephemera, objects associated with the cycles of life and of the year, ritual and custom in the Jewish communities in Europe and in Islamic Iands, with especial emphasis on the culture of Italian Jews and the Sephardic diaspora in Europe, the cultural and artistic inter-relationships between the Jewish communities and their Christian and Muslim neighbors, and the image of the Jew and Hebrew writing in art. He has published over 200 books and articles in these fields. At the same time, he collects Jewish art objects and Israeli ephemera and lectures and guides tours to Jewish sites in Europe, North Africa, India and Central Asia.
An expert on the art of the Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel).>>> She focuses on the visual representation of religious and political images in the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 1000-500 BCE), and on the use of religious symbols versus anthropomorphic images of gods especially in the Bronze and Iron Ages. She has published a catalogue, a book and many articles on these subjects in international periodicals. Prof. Ornan teaches in the Department of Art History and in the Department of Archeology.
Reception hours: Tuesday, 12:00-13:00, by appointment via e-mail.
A researcher into Italian Art of the 15th and 16th centuries in Florence, Rome, Venice, Parma and Correggio.>>>
At the end of her high school studies in Moscow and even before her Aliya to Israel in 1972, Prof. Freedman understood that she wanted to specialize in the History of Italian Renaissance Art emphasizing its Classical heritage. Her M.A. and doctorate were completed at the Hebrew University under the supervision of the department's founder and Israel Prize winner, Prof. Moshe Barasch.
Prof. Freedman has written 5 books and around 50 articles on masterpieces of the visual arts, including 3 studies on works of Italian poets: Petrarch, Boccaccio and Tasso. She has also collaborated on editing a book of articles that deal with mythology. In all of her publications she stresses her constant interest in Classical and Christian subjects and in Aesthetics.
Reception hour: Tuesday and Wednesday around the hours of the taught courses (#7708); by appointment via email; no messages from Thursday to Sunday.
An expert in Renaissance and Baroque Art and in Modern Jewish Art. >>> Prof. Posèq was originally an artist, who turned to Art History while teaching a Materials and Techniques course at the Hebrew University. He has written many books, some dealing with the Baroque (Bernini Revisited: New Insights into his Work, Caravaggio and the Antique), others with formal and semiotic problems in art (Perspective [in Hebrew], Format in Painting, Left and Right in Painting and the Related Arts), as well as books and articles on Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz and Ygael Tumarkin.
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