16 June – Historic Waterford – Summer Day Trip

30 May – Diego Francesco Carlone and Ticinese stucco a lecture by Professor Andrea Spiriti (University of Como/Varese) to celebrate the launch of Decorative plasterwork in Ireland & Europe: ornament and the early modern interior, Christine Casey & Conor Lucey (eds)

26 May – AGM Lecture – Embodying Memory: Performance and the Irish Oral Tradition in the Work of Alanna O’Kelly  a lecture by Kate Antosik Parsons

[late] April – Annual Members’ Trip.  ITALY – on the trail of late Medieval & Renaissance fresco cycles

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RECENT EVENTS

IAAH/Artefact Annual Study Day @ the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Associations promoting art in the public sphere: new exhibiting spaces in the Enlightenment and Romanticism – a lecture by J. Pedro Lorente, University of Zaragoza

UCD Art Collection in Belfield House & highlights of the UCD Sculpture Trail

Limerick City Gallery of Art & highlights of the art collection of the University of Limerick

Members’ Christmas Lecture & Party – ‘Vermeer & the lure of Dutch genre painting’ a lecture by Dr Adriaan Waiboer, Curator of Northern European Art, NGI

‘Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders: Just a bit of fun?’ a lecture by Dr Audrey Nicholls

‘Precious Things’ a lecture by Rudolf Heltzel, Goldsmith

‘And now for something completely different…’ a lecture by Professor Michael Ryan, former Director of the Chester Beatty Library

Liverpool Trip  – a trip that took in visits to the Walker Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Port Sunlight Village, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and Sudley House, as well as architectural highlights like St George’s Hall, the Three Graces on Liverpool’s historic waterfront, and Albert Dock.  In addition members braved the autumnal elements on a windswept Crosby Beach to see Anthony Gormley’s Another Place.

2012 IAAH/Artefact Study Day – Saturday, 14 April.

Venue: Board Room, Master’s Quarters, North Range, Irish Museum of Modern Art

The schedule of papers will be posted shortly.

Since its foundation in 1972 the principal aim of the Association has been the advancement of the study of the history of art at every level in Ireland: in art galleries and museums, in universities, in art schools and departments, in the school system, and through independent scholarship and publication. Membership is open to professional art historians and also to all who share the aims of the IAAH, irrespective of professional or educational status.

The IAAH maintains a programme of lectures, events, seminars and tours to significant sites in Ireland and abroad. The range of lecture subjects has been broad and varied. Visits are also arranged to important collections and exhibitions at home and abroad.

An integral part of the Association’s programme is the annual IAAH Artefact Study Day which takes place in late spring. This study day highlights new and in-progress research from across the island. Calls for papers are advertised in early spring.

In December 2007 the IAAH launched the inaugural issue of Artefact, a new peer reviewed journal published by the Irish Association of Art Historians in consultation with academics from universities across Ireland, north and south. Artefact aims to provide an outlet for publication of new and emerging scholarship in Ireland and submissions are welcomed on all periods and aspects of art history and visual culture. For more information please email Artefact [artefactjournal@gmail.com].

The IAAH is the representative association for art historians in Ireland and is responsible for the election of the Irish National Committee of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA).