Course Description

Special topics in art history

ARCHES (At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series): Special topics in art history
Creating & conserving: Special topics in art history

The Seeing America Project

About Seeing America: The Seeing America Project
Theme: National Identity: The Seeing America Project
Theme: Work, Exchange, and Technology: The Seeing America Project
Theme: Geography and the Environment: The Seeing America Project
Theme: Migration and Settlement: The Seeing America Project
Theme: Politics and Power: The Seeing America Project
Theme: American and Regional Culture: The Seeing America Project
Theme: Social Structures: The Seeing America Project
Theme: America in the World: The Seeing America Project
American art in context: The Seeing America Project

Start here

Looking at art: Start here
Approaches to art history: Start here
Tools for understanding museums: Start here
Tools for understanding religion in art: Start here
For the very beginner: Start here

Prehistoric art

Paleolithic art: Prehistoric art
Neolithic art: Prehistoric art
Test your knowledge about prehistoric art: Prehistoric art

Ancient Mediterranean

A beginner’s guide: Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Near East: Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Egypt: Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Aegean: Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Greece: Ancient Mediterranean
Nabataean: Ancient Mediterranean
Etruscan: Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Rome: Ancient Mediterranean
Palmyra: Ancient Mediterranean

Medieval Europe + Byzantine

Beginner’s guide to Medieval Europe: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Judaism and Christianity in art: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Books and the dissemination of knowledge in medieval Europe: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Early Christian: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Byzantine: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Early Medieval: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Carolingian and Ottonian: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Viking age: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Romanesque: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
Gothic: Medieval Europe + Byzantine

Art of the Islamic world 640 to now

Beginner’s guide: Art of the Islamic world 640 to now
Chronological periods: Art of the Islamic world 640 to now
Test your knowledge: Art of the Islamic world 640 to now

Europe 1300 – 1800

Italy, 14th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Printmaking in Europe: Europe 1300 – 1800
Italy, 15th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Italy 16th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Northern Europe 15th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Northern Europe 16th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Spain and Portugal 15th–16th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Europe 1300 – 1800
Baroque 17th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
Rococo and Neoclassicism 18th century: Europe 1300 – 1800
British art in the 18th century: Europe 1300 – 1800

Art of the Americas to World War I

Beginner guides to the Art of the Americas: Art of the Americas to World War I
N. America before European colonization: Art of the Americas to World War I
S. America before European colonization: Art of the Americas to World War I
Colonial Latin America: Art of the Americas to World War I
Native American art after 1600: Art of the Americas to World War I
British Colonies to the Early Republic: Art of the Americas to World War I
Art of the United States: 1800s: Art of the Americas to World War I
Latin America after independence: Art of the Americas to World War I

Europe 1800 – 1900

Introduction to 19th century art: Europe 1800 – 1900
Romanticism: Europe 1800 – 1900
Early photography: Europe 1800 – 1900
Victorian art and architecture: Europe 1800 – 1900
Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Europe 1800 – 1900
Symbolism & Art Nouveau: Europe 1800 – 1900
Russia: The Wanderers: Europe 1800 – 1900

Modernisms 1900-1980

A beginner’s guide to 20th century art: Modernisms 1900-1980
Fauvism and Expressionism: Modernisms 1900-1980
Cubism and early abstraction: Modernisms 1900-1980
Italian art before WWI: Modernisms 1900-1980
Dada and Surrealism: Modernisms 1900-1980
German art between the wars: Modernisms 1900-1980
Latin American Modernism: Modernisms 1900-1980
American art to WWII: Modernisms 1900-1980
Post-War American art: Modernisms 1900-1980
Post-War European art: Modernisms 1900-1980
Conceptual and performance art: Modernisms 1900-1980
Post-Minimalism: Modernisms 1900-1980
Global vanguards: Modernisms 1900-1980
Architecture, design, and dance: Modernisms 1900-1980

Global cultures 1980–now

Concepts in art: 1980 to now: Global cultures 1980–now

Art of Asia

A beginner’s guide to Asian art and culture: Art of Asia
China: Art of Asia
Korea: Art of Asia
Japan: Art of Asia
South Asia: Art of Asia
Southeast Asia: Art of Asia
The Himalayas: Art of Asia

Art of Africa

African art, an introduction: Art of Africa
East Africa and the Horn of Africa: Art of Africa
West Africa: Art of Africa
Central Africa: Art of Africa
North Africa: Art of Africa
Southern Africa: Art of Africa

Art of Oceania

Oceania: peoples and places: Art of Oceania

For teachers

For teachers: For teachers
Teaching with images