Spring 2019

Works of Art: Materials, Forms, Histories Jeffrey Hamburger Friday 12-2:45pm A series of team-taught workshops designed to sharpen skills in the observation, analysis, and historical interpretation of works of art and architecture.

Displaying Latin America Patricio del Real Wednesday 3-5:45pm Exhibitions have been integral to the promotion of modern architecture. They helped imagine, construct and order a modern world under the hegemony of modernism. This graduate seminar explores...

The Shoso-in Treasury Yukio Lippit, Eugene Wang, David Roxburgh Thursday 3-5:45pm This graduate seminar examines the remarkable array of objects preserved in the eighth-century Shōsō-in Imperial Treasury in Nara, Japan. Each session will be centered...

The Object in the Art Museum Ethan Lasser and Rachel Saunders Tuesday 3:00-5:45pm Practicing art history in today’s increasingly mobile art world—whether as a field curator, academic researcher, critic, or other professional specialism—requires museum...

Photography in Weimar Germany, and in Exile, 1919-1959 Benjamin Buchloh Tuesday 9:00 - 11:45am The seminar, offered to graduate students and advanced qualified undergraduate art history majors, will study the development of photographic practices in...

On Line: Drawing Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Wednesday 12-2:45pm This seminar seeks to reassess the role of drawing in modern artistic culture. We will follow the trope of line, the most basic drawing mark, not to construct a linear history of the medium, but to...

Topics in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art Joseph Koerner Tuesday 12-2:45pm Considers the history of prints in Germany and the Netherlands from its beginnings in the fifteenth century through to Rembrandt, with special reference to the difference that...

Bernini: Roman Baroque Sculpture and Spirit Shawon Kinew Thursday 3:00 – 5:45pm This graduate seminar investigates Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his sculpture within the context of Seicento art theory, aesthetics and his own spiritual practice. We will study...

At Cross Purposes: The Crusades in Material Culture Evridiki Georganteli Tuesday 12-2:45pm Crusading expeditions in the Holy Land, Spain and Eastern Europe from 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages shaped the political, socio-economic and cultural map of...

Topics in Byzantine Art: Images of Devotion Ioli Kalavrezou Wednesdayday 3-5:45pm The seminar will study the cult of relics and icons housed in churches and palaces of medieval Constantinople. Topics include the development of image and relic veneration...