Critical Thinking through Art

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.

  • Degrees Offered BA, BA/MA, PhD
  • Major Art History
  • Minor Art History

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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.

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Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, with Stephen Campbell & Elizabeth Cropper, Feb 4

Stephen Campbell, Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, will join with Elizabeth Cropper, former Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advance Study in the Visual Arts and Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, to celebrate his book,...

Uncovering Santa Cruz de Lancha

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 […]