Welcome to History of Art and Architecture
Welcome to the department of the History of Art and Architecture – a department that is known for its lively teaching and for its friendly and supportive approach to students. Trinity is the ideal place to study art history, located as it is right in the heart of the city, surrounded by the national and city museums and galleries, in a campus known for its remarkable architecture, collections of art from illuminated manuscripts to modern sculpture, and its own galleries dedicated to contemporary art, and to the junctures of art and sciences. The department has an international reputation for research in several fields of art history, both Irish and international, and has hosted a vibrant cohort of post-graduates and research fellows. The interdisciplinary approach of the department fosters connections with other areas of study within and beyond the university.
This website will introduce you to the staff, and to the courses and facilities on offer to those with an interest in the study of art, its forms and techniques, its history and place in society, and in particular, the ways in which art images, objects and structures can be read and interpreted.
Dr Yvonne Scott
Head of Department
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News & Events
Bacon’s Books
Francis Bacon’s Library and its Role in his Art (PDF, 61kb)
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th October 2012
Call for papers
May 16th 2012
Award of Foundation Scholarship
Congratulations to Gabija Purlyte, the first female student in the Department
to be awarded the prestigious Foundation Scholarship awarded by Trinity College. Gabiya is a Senior Freshman in TSM History of Art & Architecture, and Sociology. Gabija is pictured here (JPEG, 1.5mb) (centre) with her father, Vidmantas Purlys and mother, Dita Purliene, in front of the Campanile, shortly after the traditional Trinity Monday announcements by Provost Patrick Prendergast of Elections to Fellowship and Scholarship.
Apr 16th 2012
Dr. Peter Cherry delivers a seminar entitled Keeping up appearances: fashionable objects in seventeenth-century Spanish still life (PDF, 180kb) as part of the 'Object Matters' seminar series on Tuesday, 17th April at 5.30 pm in Newman House, St. Stephen's Green
April 5th 2012
Both the History of Art Dept and Triarc libraries have been greatly enhanced by a significant donation of books from Theo and Vivienne Waddington in February, 2012. These include copies of the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Jack B. Yeats Amongst Friends’ in the Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2004, with essays by Theo Waddington, Bruce Arnold, and Yvonne Scott (Head of Department of History of Art), as well as rare catalogues of exhibitions of the work of Jack B. Yeats.
Mar 13th 2012
Gothic Past, an open-access visual archive of Irish medieval architecture and sculpture that showcases thousands of photographs and drawings of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture, is now live.
Mar 2nd, 2012
Latest Publications
Limerick and South-West Ireland, Medieval Art and Architecture,edited by Roger Stalley
The Eighteenth-Century Dublin town house Form, function and finance Christine Casey, editor
Irish women artists, 1800-2009 familiar but unknown Éimear O'Connor, editor