The Department of the History of Art offers unique opportunities for the study of art history thanks to the university’s proximity to remarkable collections in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
In small classes and informal excursions, undergrads integrate their direct experience of works of art with knowledge acquired through historical research.
Caroline Lillian Schopp joins choreographer, artist, and Duke University Professor of Dance Michael Kliën for a screening and discussion of his The Utopians at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York on […]
Austen-Stokes Associate Professor Lisa Deleonardis’s new book covers her study of the 18th-century Santa Cruz de Lancha Jesuit complex in Peru and what its ruins, landscapes, and records reveal about […]
History of Art PhD Candidate Rachel Young‘s article “Andrea Andreani’s Abduction of the Sabine Women after Giambologna” was published in the December 2024 issue of Print Quarterly. Drawn from dissertation […]