What does the human body reveal about the soul? Explore Michelangelo’s masterpieces and discover how art, faith, and Renaissance thought come together in his powerful vision of the human form.
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Explore the histories of African art and archives in Oxford. From medieval collections to contemporary works, we will examine collecting practices, colonial histories, gender, ethics and repatriation. Includes object-based sessions at Pitt Rivers Museum.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writings
What makes gold sacred? Discover how artists in the Americas used this radiant material to create dazzling works of art, blending Indigenous traditions and Christian imagery in the Renaissance and Baroque.
This lecture will explore tradition and Modernism in the 1920s.
This lecture series will explore the art and architecture of the 1920s: the ‘Jazz Age’, which witnessed the earliest flowerings of Modernism. The ‘old’ was swept abruptly aside in favour of the ‘new’ - and the foundations were laid for the world of today.
This lecture will will explore how Modernism came to dominate painting, sculpture, and architecture, and its pioneering artists..
This lecture will will explore the art deco Exposition that took place in Paris in 1925.
Medieval art glitters and enthrals. Medieval architecture elicits wonder and awe. In this introductory course you will learn about its breadth and diversity, from great cathedrals and imposing castles to sacred icons and subversive marginalia.
Join us for this introduction to the art historian’s key skills, whether you wish to enhance your enjoyment of art or equip yourself for further study.
This course provides an historical introduction to the development of folklore studies in Britain. It will review historical conceptions and approaches to folklore from the seventeenth-century antiquarians to the present.
This course explores American art from the late nineteenth century to the postwar era, examining how artists responded to urbanisation, mass media, European modernism, consumer culture, and America’s changing place in the world.
