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IIC Keck Award Winner: Rode Altarpiece in Focus

This massive, multi-year project centers around the conservation and technical analysis of the altarpiece of the high altar of St. Nicholas´ Church in Tallinn (1478–1481). The double-winged retable, completed in the workshop of the famous Lübeck ...

30 October 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation

Intensive seminar in art history with Anthony Gardner

Intensive seminar in art history with Anthony Gardner “Exhibition Histories and Post-Socialism” Date and ...

27 August 2018

Academic Affairs Office Doctoral School Faculty of Art and Culture

International Inspiration #8: Antonia Alampi

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia and Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of Estonian Academy of Arts present: Lecture series “International Inspiration” 2017/2018 Antonia Alampi (Berlin) 31.05 at 18 lecture (Kohtu 6) 01.06 ...

29 May 2018

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

EKA to host a giant congress of architectural history in June 2018

The fifth pan-European meeting of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) will be held in Tallinn from June 13–16, 2018. The conference will feature five thematic parallel sessions on all three days, ranging from panels on ...

12 May 2018

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Compiling and Publishing of a Glossary of Architecture

The aim of the project is to compile and publish an illustrated comprehensive glossary of architectural terms to have a reliable source and manual for engineers, architects, art historians, conservators and others. The glossary would ...

12 May 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Previous Research Projects

Estonian Churches: Development, Improvement and Completion of the Construction History, Conservation and Research Database (phase 2)

The aim of creating the Estonian churches’ database was to provide an internet environment accessible to the scholars, conservators and the broader public and brings together all information on the ...

12 May 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Previous Research Projects

Development of the Discipline of Technical Art History for the Analysis of Cultural Heritage in Estonia

Technical art history is an interdisciplinary field of heritage studies combining methods from arts and sciences and uses contemporary information and communication technology (ICT) for acquiring, processing, archiving, contextualising and ...

12 May 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Previous Research Projects

Studies of the Estonian 20th-Century Built Environment

This project contains two main focuses: the study of the 20th-century construction history, construction materials and their preservation on the one hand, and the analysis of the heritage aspects in the planning policies ...

12 May 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Previous Research Projects

Christian Ackermann – the Arrogant and Talented Pheidias of Tallinn

Christian Ackermann was the most talented and scandalous wood carver of the baroque-era Estonia. By implementing the cutting edge investigation technologies of technical art history the project aims to identify the nature of ...

12 May 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Previous Research Projects

Mapping and Analysing Valuable 20th-Century Architecture (1870–1991) in Estonia

The 20th-century architectural heritage in Estonia is extremely diverse and it needs to be protected and recorded according to its typological diversity: starting from urban planning and landscaping to summer houses and micro ...

4 May 2018

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Previous Research Projects