The era identified as the “High Renaissance” in Florence was one of the most dystopian in the history of the city, a period of terror and explosive political crisis beginning with the expulsion of the Medici, followed by the theocratic Savonarolan regime in 1494, the repressive Medici restoration of 1513 and concluding with the fall of the “Last Republic” in 1530. Much of the most distinctive cultural production associated with this period - the sermons of Savonarola, the writings of Machiavelli, and major works of art by Michelangelo and others, is concerned with the relocation of Florentine identity following an experience of rupture with history and tradition, leading to a fundamental revaluation of the past and of the significance of history and memory. We will examine cultural transformation under a succession of Republican and autocratic regimes, with a particular attention to the process of “image-making” on the part of the state, of factions within it, of writers and ideologues, and - not least - of artists.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/6
• PosTag(s): HART-RENEM

Formed against the backdrop of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Orientalism and colonialism, the field of Islamic art history continues to grapple with the overwhelmingly Eurocentric assumptions, narratives, and approaches that shaped its emergence and development. These inherited perspectives and the debates they have sparked are the focus of this seminar, which critically examines the foundational characterizations of Islamic art—as ornamental, iconophobic, and timelessly other—together with the exhibitory, commercial, and scholarly contexts in which such ideas took root. Adopting a simultaneously thematic and chronological approach, the seminar will trace the ways in which diverse constellations of actors—including those from within the Islamic world itself—have variously established, consolidated, or challenged the field’s underlying concepts. We will explore how this discursive process has intensified in our own time, in which a spate of scholarly and popular treatments have laid bare the tension between calls to reevaluate the field and an enduring impulse to reinscribe its established contours. Alois Riegl, Oleg Grabar, Gülru Necipoğlu, Yasser Tabbaa, and Wendy Shaw are among the authors whose writings will be assessed and compared. Throughout the seminar, we will ground our historiographical inquiry in discussions of specific works and categories of Islamic art—particularly those like carpets that traditional frameworks have fetishized as decorative—and consider more fruitful avenues for addressing such material, making use of local collections to the extent that we can.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

As a central practice of the Muslim faith, pilgrimage has long animated the arts of the Islamic world, not only by generating countless monuments and objects, but also by facilitating the movement of artists, artifacts, and ideas across vast distances. This course explores the rich visual and material products of the Islamic pilgrimage tradition during the early modern and modern periods, including the architecture of the sacred sites themselves, the processions and ceremonies enacted by those who journeyed to these destinations, and proxy monuments and artworks created for those unable to perform the pilgrimage in person. Although our focus will be on the Hajj—the main annual pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest city, Mecca—we will also consider the arts associated with other pilgrimage sites, in particular the Shi‘i shrines of Iraq and Iran, as well as the pilgrimage practices of non-Muslim communities in the Middle East. We will bridge the gap between these geographies and our own vantage point in Baltimore through locally housed artworks, among them a seventeenth-century Ottoman tile at the Walters Art Museum that shows the Great Mosque of Mecca and a printed Hajj certificate—probably designed by an Indian artist but published in Istanbul in 1895—recently acquired for Hopkins’ own Special Collections. Through close engagement with these objects and other materials, the course will address such themes as sacred spectacle and ritual, pilgrimage as a locus of female patronage, and the impact of modernity on the Hajj and its traditions.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room: BLC 2043
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/7
• PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, HART-RENEM

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Merback, Mitchell
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Liu, Mia Yinxing
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Merback, Mitchell
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Liu, Mia Yinxing
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

For History of Art PhD students that are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

For History of Art PhD students that are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

For History of Art PhD students that are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is dedicated to the study of the art and material culture of ancient Egypt, spanning from the 5th millennium BCE to the Roman period. The objective of the course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of Egyptian art, with a focus on materiality, effective methods of description and analysis, and a command of bibliography. It will also enable students to practice two fundamental aspects of their future professional life: presenting a paper at a conference and submitting an article to an academic journal. In the initial sessions, we will examine the fundamental principles and conventions that define Egyptian art. We will then investigate the natural resources available to Egyptian craftsmen and artists, including nature, origin, networks, and uses. We will analyze the production of works of art through several case studies, focusing on materiality. Finally, we will reflect on the presence of Egyptian works of art in museums around the world. Moreover, the course will provide an opportunity for discourse on professional matters pertaining to engagement with Egyptian antiquities and works of art. The course will be structured around: lectures by the professor or by guest researchers, with the students participating in a dialogue with the lecturers; sessions dedicated to discussions of articles to be read (with two/three articles per session); oral presentations by the students, with the aim of reproducing the conditions of a colloquium or conference. These will include formal presentations and question-and-answer sessions, with all students taking part. At the conclusion of the semester, students will be required to submit a paper in connection with the oral presentation they have prepared. This paper will be presented as a scientific article, and the instructor will evaluate it in the same manner as an anonymous referee. Restricted to: Near Eastern Studies, Museum Studies, History of Art, or Archaeology students.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar explores two intertwining threads: the materiality of texts and the visuality of the textual, with a particular emphasis on the art and literature of the ancient Mediterranean world. We will focus on inscriptions carved on monuments, painted onto ceramics, and tessellated into floors alongside imagined images, literary ekphrasis, and the visuality of performance. In analyzing these together, we will explore, critique, and experiment with the role of writing in the History of Art. Students from all sub-fields and disciplines warmly welcome. No prerequisites.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

How did artists define their identity in the era before fixed “nationalities” and set geographies? This course investigates the art and personalities of the many Netherlandish painters, sculptors, printmakers, and craftsmen who moved and migrated across early modern Europe, finding work and fortune in cities from Rome to London, and Madrid to Stockholm. Their mobility, as the Florentine merchant Lodovico Guicciardini remarked in 1567, was “something no less wonderful than honorable.” But the reasons behind the unprecedented migrations of Dutch and Flemish artists from the Low Countries from c.1550 to 1700 were complex and varied. Many artists were driven by the political and religious turmoil of the Eighty Years’ War with Spain, while others sought economic and professional opportunities abroad. While some artists undertook short-term migrations, others left their native soil permanently. How did artists adjust to new cultures, languages, and religious traditions? What strategies did they use to succeed in their new homes? And how did their mobility ultimately affect their artistic practice? Taking a wide and critical view, the course provides a framework for examining the full range of motivations, how artists navigated new artistic, cultural, social, and religious contexts, and how artistic identity itself emerges from a relationship to place beyond one’s own.

• Days/Times: Th 5:00PM - 7:30PM
• Instructor: Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/7
• PosTag(s): n/a

The American continent and its islands are home to a diverse and delicate ecosystem, and for millennia, Indigenous communities have tended to and shaped these rich landscapes. This seminar journeys across the Americas to understand how Indigenous makers cultivated materials from these ecologies and transformed them into impressive arrays of art and architecture. Each week, students will explore a different medium—bark, shell, rubber, feathers, reed, stone, clay, etc.—that makers shaped into visual and spatial forms. Although this course focuses on the ancestral and early modern periods, it will also explore continued and shifting practices with these materials among contemporary artists. Readings will include material analyses, art historical and archaeological interpretations, as well as early colonial writings by Indigenous authors. There will also be opportunities for students to engage with materials in class. Course material will cover issues of technical skill and ecological knowledge; ephemerality and (im)permanence; animacy and relationality as it pertains to the relationships formed between makers and their works; and the role of Indigenous materialities in reconfiguring canons and categories that continue to scaffold the field of art history. For their final assignment, students will select a multimedia work from the Indigenous Americas and unpack its materiality in both presentation and essay format.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Meyer, Anthony Joshua
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/4
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC, HART-RENEM

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Merback, Mitchell
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Liu, Mia Yinxing
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Merback, Mitchell
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Liu, Mia Yinxing
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This collaborative seminar meets jointly with students from MICA to design an exhibition concerning a cast collection of ancient Mediterranean sculpture, founded in 1881, that resided at both institutions during different moments in its history (part of the collection is still located at MICA, where art students regularly engage with it). Participants will explore the dynamic position of the collection between these two urban institutions and its existence as part of the ongoing history of the city. This course is associated with the Baltimore ReCast Classics Research Lab. Advanced undergraduates can contact the instructor about joining the course.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Liu, Mia Yinxing
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 75/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 71/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 73/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 75/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 70/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 73/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 73/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Merback, Mitchell
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 73/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 74/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 75/75
• PosTag(s): n/a