Alexander Nagel, chair of Art History and Museum Professions, associate professor of History of Art, has been named a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in Washington, D.C. In his project, he investigates the many modern legacies of ancient art from Yemen in modern North American museum collections.
This September, he and his colleague Atefeh Shekofte, a senior research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a professor at the Art University of Isfahan in Iran, have been invited to speak at Cambridge University in the U.K. to introduce recent work on pigments and polychromy from Taq-e Bostan, a major site of the Sasanian period in pre-Islamic Iran.
Nagel recently conducted more research on three fragments from diverse sites on the platform at Persepolis in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and spoke at a conference in Vienna on a collection of ancient Western Asian seals in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.