Recommended Art History Course Descriptions
ARH 239 - Oriental Art I
The arts of India, China, and Japan from the neolithic period through the 7th century A.D.
ARH 240 - Oriental Art II
The arts of India, China, and Japan from the 7th through the 18th century A.D.
ARH 241 - Andean Art
Central and South America from the Valdivia culture of Ecuador (ca. 3000 B.C.) to the Inca Empire and the Spanish conquest (A.D. 1532).
ARH 242 - Mesoamerican Art
From Olmec beginnings (ca. 1500 B.C.) through the Teotihuacán, the Mayan and the Aztec cultures to the Spanish conquest (A.D. 1521).
ARH 243 - Native American Art
From the cultures of the archaic woodlands and the ancient southwest (ca. 6000 B.C. to the present).
ARH 249 - Art of West Africa
Traditional art of Africa south of the Sahara and west of the Nigeria/Cameroon border from earliest forms to the present.
ARH 250 - Art of Central Africa
Traditional art of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa from earliest forms to the present.
ARH 330 - Art of Egypt and Mesopotamia
A study of the art and civilizations of ancient Egypt and the Tigris-Euphrates valley. ARH 131
ARH 332 - Greek Art
The art of the ancient Greek civilization. ARH 131
ARH 333 - Roman Art
The social history of Roman art from the first century B.C. through the fourth century A.D. ARH 131
ARH 335 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Christian art from the second through the fifteenth centuries in Rome and the Byzantine Empire. ARH 131
ARH 336 - Medieval Art
From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Gothic cathedral: Barbarian jewelry, Irish manuscripts, the stained glass of monastery and cathedral, and Charlemagne s renaissance in architecture and sculpture. ARH 131
ARH 337 - Italian Renaissance Art
The painting, sculpture, and architecture of Florence in the fifteenth century. ARH 132
ARH 338 - Sixteenth Century Italian Art
The painting, sculpture, and architecture of Italy in the sixteenth century. ARH 132
ARH 339 - Northern Renaissance Art
The painting of France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. ARH 132
ARH 340 - Baroque Art
The art of Europe in the seventeenth century. ARH 132
ARH 342 - Nineteenth Century European Art
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and others. ARH 132
ARH 343 - Modern Art
Cezanne to Surrealism. European and American art from ca. 1880-1940. ARH 132
ARH 344 - Contemporary Art
European and American art from the Second World War to the present. ARH 132
ARH 345 - Art in the United States
Late Colonial art through the Armory Show. ARH 132
ARH 530 - Seminar in Art History
Special topics in Western and nonWestern art. Semester s topic will be announced.
ARH 560 - Seminar in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art
Special topics from pioneers of modern art to contemporary issues.
ARH 570 - Seminar in Non-European Art Traditions
Special topics in African, Oriental, Oceanic, or Native American art traditions.