Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the DUS for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor.
Seminar offered under special arrangements consisting of weekly meetings with designated faculty, where regular reading and writing assignments are focused on a topic of mutual interest.
Christina Maranci This course studies Armenian liturgical and domestic textiles from local collections, putting them into their social, historical, ritual, and art-historical context.
Required of all History of Art and Architecture concentrators in their sophomore year. An introduction to the practice of art and architectural history through object-based teaching led by faculty members in HAA.
What is known as the Renaissance was a period of intense cultural transformation, and it is a history whose legacy we have inherited. From the construction of the liberal arts to the Doctrine of Discovery (only rejected by the Vatican in 2023), we live...
A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods. Course is required of HAA G1s and open solely to HAA G1s
Sarah Lewis In 2023, it is hard to look anywhere and not see the force of black culture in media, entertainment, and the visual arts, now more heavily represented in the exhibitions and displays in museums around the country. It is hard to read the...
Patricio del Real Can architecture bring about a utopian space, a different space from the one we normally inhabit? This proseminar explores architectural utopias in the 20th Century by examining ideas, forms, and case studies across the world that sought...
Join [The Carpenter Center] for a conversation on the exhibition Cosmos Falling, led by curator Danni Shen, with Madison Brown, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, and Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich...
Thomas Cummins This is a general introduction to and survey of the arts of Ancient America. We will look at both Mesoamerica and the Andean art and architecture beginning with some of the earliest cultures and ending with Aztec, Maya, Muisca and Inca...
Gulru Necipoglu Examines multimedia arts, monuments, gardens, and cities of the Ottoman Empire straddling Asia, Europe and Africa. The selective fusion of Ottoman-Islamic, Byzantine, and Italian Renaissance artistic traditions, and the earliest pictorial...