Explore the Department

two students walking on campus in front of Gilman Hall

Graduate Program

The graduate program in art history emphasizes close working relationships among students and faculty in seminars and concentrated, in-person study of works of art in the outstanding local collections.

Professor Aaron Hyman studies a tabella secretarum, from France c. 1700.

Faculty

Our faculty are experts in ancient Mediterranean, ancient Near East, European medieval, European Renaissance and early modern, ancient and early modern Americas, Islamic, South Asian, and modern and contemporary art and architectural history.

Undergraduates at Walters Museum of Art to viewing exhibit “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” in fall of 2023.

Undergraduate Studies

In small classes and informal excursions, undergrads integrate their direct experience of works of art with knowledge acquired through historical research.

Upcoming Events

Caplan-Rosen Lecture Spring 2024: Prof. Kuiyi Shen 

Caplan Rosen poster

Calligraphic Language and Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Art Calligraphy entered contemporary Chinese art at the time modernist art reappeared in China in the 1980s, and gradually became an important component […]

News & Announcements

View All Posts 

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

We are pleased to announce that the “Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art,” edited by Stephen Campbell, Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in the Department of the History of Art, […]