Explore modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day. This course provides frameworks for understanding key ideas, techniques and debates in modern art, while highlighting both innovation and continuity with the art of earlier periods.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
This course will explore the English medieval cathedral as a developing institution which survived over a thousand years of religious upheaval and historical change, focusing on the multifaceted architecture of a range of truly great churches.
The course explores the reigns of English queens regnant and consort from 1485-1642, with a focus on gender: did Mary I and Elizabeth I perform and rule differently from kings? What kinds of influence did the wives of kings exert?
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 guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will centre on twelve of Michelangelo’s drawings, from which we will also consider relationships with his sculptures and paintings. It will cover key periods of his career, techniques and working methods.
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.
Explore the histories of African art & archives in Oxford. From medieval collections to contemporary works, this course examines collecting practices, colonial histories, gender, ethics & 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..