History of Art

2026–2027

63 courses

HSAR 0016Chinese Painting and Culture
HSAR 0019Matters of Color/Color Matters
HSAR 1110Introduction to the History of Art: Global Decorative Arts
HSAR 252Roman Architecture
HSAR 3209African Diasporic Art
HSAR 3217American Art to 1900
HSAR 3219American Architecture and Urbanism
HSAR 3220Introduction to Contemporary Art
HSAR 3222News and Fake News: From Print to Photography
HSAR 3232Leonardo da Vinci on Nature. Art and Invention in the Renaissance
HSAR 3247Art and Myth in Greek Antiquity
HSAR 3253Art and Identity in Colonial Mexico
HSAR 3257Introduction to Modern Art
HSAR 3263The Art of Byzantium
HSAR 3286Renaissance Architecture: A Global History
HSAR 3305Time in Chinese Art
HSAR 3326Architecture Before Modernity
HSAR 3380Ecologies of Culture: Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
HSAR 355Futurism: Reconstructing the Universe
HSAR 4283Paper Icons
HSAR 4355Futurism: Reconstructing the Universe
HSAR 4357Motifs, Patterns, and Painting Techniques in Traditional Turkish Arts
HSAR 4358Antisemitic Visual Culture since the Middle Ages
HSAR 4372Post Black Art and Beyond
HSAR 4374Dürer's Bookish World
HSAR 4375Museums: Power and Politics
HSAR 4379Modernism and the Middle East
HSAR 4401Critical Approaches to Art History
HSAR 4404Black Exhibition Histories
HSAR 4405The Dark Side of The Italian Renaissance: Sex, Scandals, and Secrets
HSAR 4457Japanese Gardens
HSAR 4460Writing about Contemporary Figurative Art
HSAR 4474Histories and Critiques of the Art Museum
HSAR 4476Energy Cultures of Modern Architecture
HSAR 4477The Culture of Landscape in China
HSAR 4499The Senior Essay
HSAR 5500First-Year Colloquium
HSAR 6535Russian Style: Material Culture and the Decorative Arts in Imperial Russia
HSAR 6553Embodied Artisanal Knowledge
HSAR 6557Art and Text in Greek Antiquity
HSAR 6564Archaia Seminar: Art, Architecture, and Climate Change in the Premodern World
HSAR 6565The Media of Architecture and the Architecture of Media
HSAR 6570Language and the Study of Indigenous Art
HSAR 6574Archaia Seminar: Literacy, Books, and the Materiality of Writing in the Premodern World
HSAR 6579Modernism and the Middle East
HSAR 6580Art/Work: On Aesthetics and Labor
HSAR 6616Capital Building: Histories of Design and Accumulation
HSAR 6660Writing the Object, Writing the World
HSAR 6678Portraiture and Character from Hogarth to Woolf
HSAR 6682Gesamtkunstwerk
HSAR 6689Utopias, Counter-Utopias, Heterotopias: An Architectural and Urban History
HSAR 6700Media Cultures of the Cold War
HSAR 6701Animals, Nonhuman and Otherwise
HSAR 6716Landscapes of Meaning: Museums and Their Objects
HSAR 6768The Birth of Aesthetics
HSAR 6770Video Art, Guerrilla Television, and Alternative Media
HSAR 6791Unfinished Conversations: Black Contemporary Art
HSAR 6833Paper Icons
HSAR 6841Topics in the Environmental Humanities
HSAR 6842Topics in the Environmental Humanities
HSAR 6845Adaptive Reuse in Karachi: History, Documentation, and Intervention
HSAR 9512Directed Research
HSAR 9546Critical Readings in American Art