Fall 2022

Maria Gough How does modernist innovation and experimentation in the visual arts relate to the European quest for empire? How was European modernism shaped by imperial ambition and colonial expansion? By the domination and subordination of others? By the...

Felipe Pereda This course is about two things. First it’s an introductory course to the art of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) at the time of the Enlightenment and early Romanticism. It will look into his formation in the institutions of the Old Regime...

David Roxburgh, Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar An introduction to key monuments and cities - Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba, Isfahan, Istanbul, Samarqand - from the historical Islamic lands, ca. 650-1650 C.E., from Spain to India. Various building types are treated - e...

Evridiki Georganteli Objects are essential primary sources for the study of the past. They are imbued with tales of their makers, of societies in which they took shape, of customs and beliefs that lent them meaning, and of routes that facilitated their...

Yukio Lippit, David Roxburgh, Joseph Koerner, Jennifer Roberts, and Jinah Kim, with special lectures by Robin Kelsey and Sarah Lewis. An introduction to major works of art and architecture from around the world, co-taught by a team of professors. Subjects...