How did one artist help shape a global artistic language? Discover how Rubens’ dynamic style travelled across Europe and beyond, linking courts, empires, and cultures.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
During this flexible online course, learn how to study and analyse paintings, drawings and prints, and learn the 'language of looking'.
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
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 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.
Rediscover Renaissance art through a sensory history. The course coincides with the opening of a major exhibition on the subject at the Ashmolean in summer 2027, where students can visit for a guided tour by one of the curators.
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.
Explore how the German Expressionists and World War I are followed by DADA, the November Group and New Objectivity (Grosz, Dix, Beckmann). Cinema (Metropolis) and August Sander’s photography will also be examined. Includes a trip to the National Gallery.
Explore how Italian Renaissance artists reconciled Classical and pagan imagery with Christianity. Discover the art of Masaccio, Donatello, Titian, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, and the revival of ancient gods and myths. Includes two Ashmolean trips.
This practical course explores how objects carry memory and meaning. Through guided exercises and projects, you will develop skills in photographing objects, connecting psychological ideas with image-making, and creating a small body of work.
The Dutch Golden Age (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Steen) captured life in 17th-century Netherlands. The Danish Golden Age saw artists (Købke, Bendz) echo their Dutch forebears. Examine the comparisons between them. Includes a trip to the Ashmolean.
