History of Art

2026–2027

115 courses

AS.010.101Introduction to Art History, Pre-1400
AS.010.102Introduction to Art History, 1400 to the Present
AS.010.205Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica
AS.010.222Modern Art in the Arab World
AS.010.235Art, Medicine, and the Body: Middle Ages to Modernity
AS.010.238The Painting of Modern Life: From the Avant-garde to the Everyday
AS.010.239Art in Motion: The Interconnected Mediterranean in the 1st mill. BCE
AS.010.240Art and the Environment in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
AS.010.242Place and Power in the Ancient Americas
AS.010.245Netherlandish Painting in the Fifteenth Century: Broederlam to Bosch
AS.010.246Indigenous Architectures, Sites, and Environments
AS.010.255Introduction to Performance Art
AS.010.290Women, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction to the History of Chinese Art
AS.010.291The Art of Ancient Greek Medicine
AS.010.292Greek Tragedy and the Visual Arts
AS.010.301Michelangelo: Religion, Sexuality, and the Crisis of Renaissance Art
AS.010.307Diplomats, Dealers, and Diggers: The Birth of Archaeology and the Rise of Collecting from the 19th c. to Today
AS.010.314The Art and Architecture of the Gods in Ancient Greece
AS.010.315Art of the Assyrian Empire, 1000-600 BCE
AS.010.316Touching Waves: Textiles and Architecture in the Islamic World
AS.010.322Knowledge, Holiness, and Pleasure: The Illustrated Book in the Medieval World
AS.010.327Asia America: Art and Architecture
AS.010.330Art of the Caliphates: Visual Culture and Competition in the Medieval Islamic World
AS.010.336Männer und Meister: Artistry and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Germany
AS.010.339Sex, Death, and Gender: The Body in Premodern Art, Medicine, and Culture, c. 1300-1600
AS.010.341Asian Modernisms
AS.010.342Projecting Power: Monarchs, Movies, and the Masses
AS.010.346Art of the Cold War Era
AS.010.350Body and Soul: Medicine in the Ancient Americas
AS.010.354Performance, Ritual, and Drama in Medieval Art and Architecture
AS.010.355Exhibiting Picasso: Modern Painting Now
AS.010.356Landscape in World Cinema
AS.010.358The Art of Celebration in Early Modern Northern Europe
AS.010.359The Symbolic Mosque: A Political History of Islamic Architecture
AS.010.364Babylon: Myth and Reality
AS.010.365Art of the Ancient Andes
AS.010.366Native American Art
AS.010.369The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose
AS.010.373Art and Politics in Modern China
AS.010.377Modern Palestinian Art & Its Contexts
AS.010.386Modern Art in a Global Frame
AS.010.388Afro Asia
AS.010.398Tombs for the Living
AS.010.401A Republic in Crisis: Florence 1490-1530
AS.010.402Mobility & Migration of the Artist in Early Modern Europe
AS.010.407Ancient Americas Metallurgy
AS.010.413Historical and Conceptual Bases of Art History
AS.010.416Leonardo da Vinci: Lives and Afterlives of a Premodern Artist
AS.010.418On Weaving: Feminism, Ecology, Care
AS.010.419The Passion and Resurrection from Middle Ages to Modernity: Image, Narrative, Drama, Film
AS.010.421An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Art and Architecture beyond the Imperial Court
AS.010.426Sacred Connections: The Arts of Pilgrimage in the Islamic World, c. 1500–1900
AS.010.427Catharsis: Creating (with) Greek Tragedy
AS.010.428Art & Culture in the Crusader Near East, ca 1000-1300
AS.010.431Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome
AS.010.444Classics/History of Art Research Lab
AS.010.445Picturing Power across the Ancient Americas
AS.010.446Philoctetes and the Art of Medicine
AS.010.447Art and the Body in the Ancient Americas
AS.010.451Script, Character, Scribble: Writing and Pseudo-Writing in Modern and Contemporary Art
AS.010.458Visualizing Travel, Movement, and Interaction in the Ancient Americas
AS.010.459The illuminated charter: visual splendor, performance, and authenticity of medieval legal documents
AS.010.465Renew, Reuse, Recycle: Afterlives of Architecture in the Ottoman Empire
AS.010.467The Renaissance in its Global Dimensions 1450-1650
AS.010.468What is in a Landscape
AS.010.469Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican Sculpture
AS.010.471Duchamp Effects: From the Ready-Made to Being Given
AS.010.472Pictura/Scriptura: Visual and Literary Culture 1400-1600
AS.010.474Picturing Performance
AS.010.480Indigenous Materialities of the Americas
AS.010.481Figuration after Formlessness
AS.010.483Three Artists (Three Sick Women): Art, Illness, Death
AS.010.497Reply-All: Letter-Writing in Art and History
AS.010.501Independent Study
AS.010.502Independent Study
AS.010.521Honors Thesis
AS.010.522Honors Thesis
AS.010.603A Republic in Crisis: Florence 1490-1530
AS.010.604Contested Patterns: Islamic Art History and Its Challenges
AS.010.606The Translingual Historiography of Art