During this flexible online course, learn how to study and analyse paintings, drawings and prints, and learn the 'language of looking'.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
Explore the culture of the English country house from its architectural form, social manners and distinctions to the furnishings and artistic manifestations of taste, as an expression of power and influence in a changing society.
Explore Impressionism and modern life in nineteenth-century France through the work of Monet, Manet, Degas and their contemporaries. This course examines Impressionist techniques, women Impressionists, critical responses to the exhibitions, and the moveme
This course will focus on works by four of the era's major figures - Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy - identifying how the century's main preoccupations find substance in the work of its greatest writers.
Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, this online course traces the rise and spread of modernism in European and American architecture, and concludes by examining contemporary architecture and future possibilities.
This course is for those who would like to write but don't know how; who tried once and gave up; or who already write but would like to improve; and for readers who have no desire to write but want a different perspective on how fiction works.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will centre on twelve of Raphael’s drawings, from which we will also consider relationships with his paintings. It will cover the main periods of his career, techniques and working methods.
From Chaucer to the latest detective fiction, Oxford has been the setting for stories of all kinds. This walking tour, plus lunch, will examine Oxford's literary pre-eminence, discover literary connections and share some tall tales.
Rediscover Renaissance art through a sensory history
Join the curators and others from ‘behind the scenes’ of the Ashmolean’s major exhibition, 'Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses’, to discover the stories behind the show.
The MSt in Literature and Arts is an interdisciplinary Oxford University master’s, which encompasses literature, history, art, architectural history, political thought and the history of ideas.
This two-year part-time master's degree explores how ordinary things and places created since 1851 reveal fascinating traces of historical experience.