Art History

2026-2027

246 courses

ARTHIST 100NThe Artist in Ancient Greek Society (CLASSICS 18N)
ARTHIST 101Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period (CLASSICS 161)
ARTHIST 102Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas (CLASSICS 162)
ARTHIST 102BCoffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (ARTHIST 302B, HISTORY 202B, HISTORY 302B, HISTORY 402B)
ARTHIST 104QPicturing Americans (AMSTUD 104Q)
ARTHIST 105NDesigning How We Live: Why Architecture is More Than Just Building
ARTHIST 106Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306, CLASSICS 171)
ARTHIST 107Beauty and the Beast: A History of West African Fashion and Sustainability (AFRICAAM 107, DLCL 101, FEMGEN 107)
ARTHIST 111NArt Worlds: Museum, Studio, Gallery, Archive
ARTHIST 113All is Fair... Love and War in Italian Renaissance Art
ARTHIST 114QReading Comics (FILMEDIA 114Q)
ARTHIST 115The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success (ARTHIST 315, ITALIAN 115A, ITALIAN 315A)
ARTHIST 116The American Civil War: A Ghost Story (AMSTUD 116A)
ARTHIST 119Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 319, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)
ARTHIST 11NRoman Portraits and Persons (ARCHLGY 11N, CLASSICS 11N)
ARTHIST 120Superhero Theory (AMSTUD 120B, ARTHIST 320, FILMEDIA 120, FILMEDIA 320)
ARTHIST 121NIslam and Water
ARTHIST 123The Global Mughal World
ARTHIST 127Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture in Europe: The Art World en masse
ARTHIST 128Modern Africa: Art and Decolonization (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 328)
ARTHIST 129Fashion (ARTHIST 329)
ARTHIST 130NThe Age of Romanticism: Painting, Literature, Politics
ARTHIST 133Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 333)
ARTHIST 133EA Global History of Architecture and Engineering (CEE 33E)
ARTHIST 133LExperiencing Campus Architecture (CEE 33L)
ARTHIST 134Introduction to Early Andean Visual Culture: Interspecies Value and More-than-Human Presence (ARCHLGY 54, NATIVEAM 134A)
ARTHIST 139East Asian Buddhist Painting: Visions and Practices (ARTHIST 339, CHINA 139, CHINA 339, EASTASN 339A)
ARTHIST 140An Architectural Imagination (FILMEDIA 140)
ARTHIST 142Architecture Since 1900 (CEE 32G)
ARTHIST 143AAmerican Architecture (AMSTUD 143A, ARTHIST 343A)
ARTHIST 148CThe Life and Legends of Cleopatra VII (AFRICAAM 48C, CLASSICS 48, FEMGEN 48)
ARTHIST 14QThinking with Leonardo da Vinci: Creativity and Invention in the Renaissance (HISTORY 14Q, ITALIAN 14Q)
ARTHIST 152The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ENGLISH 124, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)
ARTHIST 153ACulture Beyond Capital (AFRICAAM 153, CSRE 153, TAPS 153E)
ARTHIST 160Censorship in American Art (AMSTUD 167, CSRE 160, FEMGEN 167)
ARTHIST 163Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 363, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)
ARTHIST 164History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World (ARTHIST 364, CSRE 102C, CSRE 302C, FEMGEN 100C, FEMGEN 300C, FILMEDIA 100C, FILMEDIA 300C, GLOBAL 193, GLOBAL 390, TAPS 100C, TAPS 300C)
ARTHIST 165Vincent van Gogh and His World
ARTHIST 168AAI 360: What's Critical to Know about AI (AFRICAAM 106C, AMSTUD 106B, CSRE 106A, ENGLISH 106A, SYMSYS 168A)
ARTHIST 182BCultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China, 960-1279 CE (ARTHIST 382B)
ARTHIST 185Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (ARTHIST 385, CHINA 185A, CHINA 385A, EASTASN 385B)
ARTHIST 186BAsian American Art (AMSTUD 186D, ARTHIST 386B, ASNAMST 186B)
ARTHIST 188Imperial Collecting, Patronage, and Taste in China and Japan (ARTHIST 388)
ARTHIST 188BFrom Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art (ARTHIST 388B, CHINA 188B, CHINA 388B, EASTASN 388B)
ARTHIST 189Word Image & Emotion in Medieval Manuscripts
ARTHIST 191African American Art (AFRICAAM 191B, CSRE 191)
ARTHIST 199Close Cinematic Analysis: Poetic Cinema (ASNAMST 108, FEMGEN 104, FILMEDIA 101, FILMEDIA 301, TAPS 101F)
ARTHIST 1AWhat is Art: Introduction to Early Global Art and Architecture (CLASSICS 56)
ARTHIST 1BHow to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting
ARTHIST 2Asian Arts and Cultures (JAPAN 60)
ARTHIST 201ASoren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 401A)
ARTHIST 203Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks (CLASSICS 163)
ARTHIST 204Dialogues with the Dead (CLASSICS 127)
ARTHIST 205Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension (ARTHIST 405, CLASSICS 113, CLASSICS 313, MUSIC 205, MUSIC 405)
ARTHIST 206APersian Poetry: Text, Space, and Image (ARTHIST 406A, COMPLIT 126, COMPLIT 226)
ARTHIST 206BAudiovision in the Medieval Cult of Saints
ARTHIST 207BThe Art of Travel: Medieval Journeys to the Unknown (ARTHIST 407B)
ARTHIST 207ESacred Play: The Material Culture of Christian Festivals (ARTHIST 407E)
ARTHIST 208Hagia Sophia (ARTHIST 408, CLASSICS 173, CLASSICS 273)
ARTHIST 208AThe Dome as an All-Seeing Eye: Theatre of Judgment in Byzantine Art (ARTHIST 408A, CLASSICS 119, CLASSICS 319)
ARTHIST 208BThe Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews (ARTHIST 408B)
ARTHIST 208DVirginity and Power: The Mother of God and Visions of Empire (ARTHIST 408D)
ARTHIST 209CMedieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258, REES 409)
ARTHIST 20QWar and Art
ARTHIST 210Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World (HISTORY 240C, ITALIAN 140, ITALIAN 240)
ARTHIST 211AAndean Textile Logic: Weaving as Practice and Process in the Precontact Andes (ARTHIST 411A)
ARTHIST 212Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds (ARTHIST 412, COMPLIT 212A, COMPLIT 312A, ILAC 212A, ILAC 312A)
ARTHIST 213AFrom the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (ARTHIST 413A, GERMAN 213A)
ARTHIST 214ALove's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 414A, COMPLIT 214A, COMPLIT 318)
ARTHIST 215AVisualizing Race in California: An Art History (AMSTUD 215A, ARTHIST 415A)
ARTHIST 217Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth (ARTHIST 417)
ARTHIST 217BDesign Theory (ARTHIST 417B)
ARTHIST 218Fashion and Other Disasters (ARTHIST 418)
ARTHIST 218AMichelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 418A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)
ARTHIST 222Looted Art: Histories and Restitution
ARTHIST 222AImage Technologies in the 19th Century: Reproductions, Revivals, and Revolutions (ARTHIST 422A)
ARTHIST 226Field Works: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Arts across Cultures (ARTHIST 426, CHINA 226, CHINA 426, EASTASN 326A)
ARTHIST 227African Art, Modernism, Cosmopolitanism (AFRICAAM 220)
ARTHIST 228Curating Contemporary Chinese Art (ARTHIST 428, CHINA 228A, CHINA 328A, EASTASN 428)
ARTHIST 230Beauty