Department of the History of Art : Information for Graduates


	REGULARLY OFFERED COURSES 700 Series: 701 Seminar in the Methodology of the History of Art. Maxwell/Staff Topic varies, e.g., Early History of Art History (2003, 2004). 710 Seminar in Indian Architecture. Meister Architecture and architectural sculpture of the Indian sub-continent explored in terms of its morphology and symbolism. Students make use of the resources of the South Asia Art Archive. Topic varies. 711 Seminar in Indian Art. Meister Topic varies. 712 Seminar in Islamic Architecture. Holod Topic varies. 713 Seminar in East Asian Art. Davis Topic varies. 716 Seminar in Islamic Architecture. Holod Topic varies. 717 Seminar in Islamic Art. Holod Topic varies. Most recent topic: "Optics and Aesthetics: Vision in the Islamic World." 718 Seminar in Islamic Architecture. Holod Topic varies. Last topic taught: "Safavid Isfahan of the seventeenth century: Architecture and Setting." 719 Approaches to the Archeology of Islamic Periods. Holod This seminar will trace the development of the field from one that was centered largely on the recovery of major monuments to one in which issues of daily life, demography, chronology and the study of settlement patterns have come to play a major role. The seminar will review work in the major zones of the Islamic world: Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, Syria-Palestine, Egypt, North Africa I (Libya-Tunisia), North Africa II (Algeria- Morocco), Spain. There will be guest lectures in the seminar from specialists on Central Asia, Iraq, Syria and Egypt. 721 Seminar in Greek Architecture. Haselberger Topic varies. 724 Seminar in Ancient Near Eastern Art. Pittman Topic varies. 725 Seminar in Neo-Assyrian Art. Pittman Survey of the major arts of the Assyrians (ca. ninth-seventh centuries B.C.) - architecture, relief sculpture, glyptic, metalwork - in the political and cultural context of the expanding Assyrian empire. 726 Iconography of the Ancient Near East. Pittman 727 Seminar in Roman Architecture. Haselberger Topic varies. 728 Seminar in Classical Architecture. Haselberger Topic varies. 729 Seminar in Classical Art. Kuttner Note: The "umbrella" headings 521 and 729 regularly discuss a range of topics, including private and public art in Rome and in the provinces; sculpture, painting, coinage, minor arts and other image media; patronage and display; architectural planning and patronage; landscape architecture; the Hellenistic Mediterranean; the Roman Republic, empire and Late Antiquity; and ancient texts about the arts. For specific topics, see the Art History course archives. 742 Seminar in Medieval Art. Maxwell Topic varies, e.g., Medieval Urbanism (2001). 743 Medieval Iconography. Maxwell Topic varies. 752 Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Italian Art. Cole Topic varies. Recent topics include: Leonardo da Vinci (2003), The Counter-Reformation (2004). 762 Seminar in Northern Renaissance Art. Silver Topic varies. 771 Seminar in Baroque Art. Silver Topic varies. 772 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Art. Staff Topic varies. 779 Knowledge of Prints. Silver Topic varies. 781 Seminar in Nineteenth-century Architecture. Brownlee Topic varies. 782 Seminar in Twentieth-century Architecture. Brownlee Topic varies. 784 Seminar in Nineteenth-century Art. Staff Topic varies. 785 Seminar in Twentieth-century Art. Poggi Topic varies. 786 Seminar in American Art. Staff Topic varies. 787 Seminar in Contemporary Art. Poggi Topic varies. 793 Seminar in Cinema Studies. Beckman Topic varies.