Beginning in the present, the course will examine how popular constructions of “Da Vinci” are used to legitimate contemporary obsessions with art, genius, and technological innovation. We will examine how, since the 1500s, the biography and “character” of Leonardo has been produced, often in the absence of historical evidence, and the cultural and political interests that these productions serve. The primary focus of the course will be a revisionist approach to the writings and imagery of Leonardo, to be considered with regard to questions of artistic selfhood in the Renaissance, and of the artisan as author figure.

• Days/Times: Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Campbell, Stephen John
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/6
• PosTag(s): HART-RENEM

How might a critical and material art history contribute to contemporary debates in theory? Feminist and queer theories, on the one hand, and ecological thought, on the other, have often turned to metaphors of weaving in their attempt to think antihierarchical forms of relationality. Against models of autonomous selfhood, weaving is evoked to foreground the material fact of our interdependence with human and other forms of life, and to articulate relations that are all too often discounted in western liberal cultures – along with the care work that goes into maintaining them. This seminar lends texture to metaphors of weaving by looking at material practices. We consider how the study of textile and fiber arts informs theoretical concerns, while also attending to the ways in which our reading of theory impacts our appreciation of artistic techniques and practices. The course will include two group excursions on Saturdays to the exhibition “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, sponsored by the Faculty-Student Engagement and Enrichment Fund..

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/6
• PosTag(s): HART-MODERN

What makes the Gospel story of Jesus of Nazareth’s arrest, trial, execution, burial, and resurrection not only Christianity's defining narrative but one of the enduring “root paradigms” of western culture? This seminar takes a long-range look at the transformations in European religious consciousness surrounding the Passion narratives, and explores the myriad developments in story-telling, image-making, and play-acting they urged forward. Our historical survey moves from the earliest icons associated with the Holy Places in Jerusalem, through the artful fictions conjured in the realist tradition by painters such as Hieronymus Bosch and Peter Paul Rubens, to late medieval Passion plays, Passion meditation and cult-forms, and finally to the silver-screen phenomenon that includes Paolo Pasolini's "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" (1964), Martin Scorcese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" (2004).

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Merback, Mitchell
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/6
• PosTag(s): HART-MED, HART-RENEM

This graduate seminar investigates the intersection of crafting and cultural interaction among the regions of the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean and Near East from 3000-500 BCE (Bronze and Iron Ages).

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.; Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC

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: 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 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: 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 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: 4/5
• 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, 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: 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 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: 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: 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, Yinxing
• 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: Zchomelidse, Nino
• 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: 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: 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

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: 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: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 71/75
• 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: Stager, Jennifer
• 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: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 75/75
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer research for doctoral students

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

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
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/6
• 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: 8/10
• 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 seminar will examine a constellation of readings and moments in the history of Asian art since c. 1900 through the lens of the transnational. We’ll unpack this term and some of its relations including cosmopolitan, diaspora, and global, and then turn to several case studies of exchange, contact, engagement across geographies in the long 20th century. These include: pan-Asian aesthetics as discussed in India-Japan exchanges in the 1910s, Chinese artists who study and live in Paris in the 1920s and (sometimes) return to China, the concept of “international contemporaneity” as articulated in 1960s Japanese art, India’s engagement with internationalism and “indigenism” in the 1960s, Japan–US interfaces in the 1960s and 1970s, Marxist art and art histories in India in the 1970s and 1980s, the “East Village” in Beijing and NYC in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Chinese avant-garde in a post-Maoist context.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/8
• PosTag(s): HART-MODERN

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
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• 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: 4/5
• 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, 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: 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: 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
• 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: 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, 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: 7/8
• 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: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a