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- The Allure of Animals in Academic Art
- Classical Mythology in 19th-century French Art
- Celebrities: Portrait medals in 19th-Century France
- Oriental “Native Types” from the Dahesh Collection
- Recording Islamic Architecture and Design
- French Natural Selections
- Painting Piety from the Dahesh Collection
- About Face: Learning to Draw Emotion through Expressive Heads
- From St. Petersburg to Paris: The Education of Russian Artists in France
- Picturing the News: The Birth of the Illustrated Press
- Egyptomania: 19th Century Depictions of Ancient Egypt
- The Franco-Prussian War and Its Aftermath in French Art
- Painting Pompeii: From Neoclassicism to the Néo-Grecs
- The Spanish Orient and Henri Regnault (French, 1843–1871)
- Women Artists Who Dared II: Jeanne Thil (French, 1887–1968) and Marie Hadad (Lebanese, 1889–1973)
- Women Artists Who Dared I: Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899) and Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau (American, 1837–1922)
- Peder Mork Mønsted’s (Danish, 1859–1941) Poetic Views of Nature
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2024 AHNCA/Dahesh Graduate Student Symposium
The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize, of the Dahesh Museum of Art, given for a distinguished presentation at the Twenty-first Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, held on March 16–17, 2024. Each recipient will receive $1000 for their doctoral research.
The recipients of the award are: Kiki Barnes, City University of New York; Colton Klein, Yale University; and Samantha Small, City University of New York. Read More
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The Dahesh In Focus Series
The Museum is pleased to announce the arrival of a new publication in the In Focus series. Begun in 2016, the series explores aspects of academic art, major artists, or a single work of art, fully illustrated with examples from the Dahesh’s rich collection and comparative visual images. Each publication in the series features an essay written by a Dahesh staff member or scholar in the field. Buy Online