Explore medieval art, death, and the afterlife through tombs, relics, manuscripts, and Last Judgement imagery, with visits to the Ashmolean Museum and the Bodleian’s Weston Library.
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What does contemporary art mean in a global world? This course offers an accessible introduction to key themes and practices across cultures, including a field trip. We will also explore how artists respond to social and political change.
Study the rich and vibrant history of global art in the Oxford Collections, exploring Oxford's exceptional museums and colleges alongside a field trip to The British Museum.
Discover the artistry of English medieval stained glass by exploring the subjects depicted and the sophistication of the craft that brings them to life. Enhanced by visits to windows in situ, this course will transform your understanding of this artform.
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
From Paris to Moscow, Glasgow to Barcelona, this short online course examines the richness and variety of European art nouveau.
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.
This course examines the social, economic, religious, and political contexts under which women have always made art, but have largely been marginalised in its formal histories and markets.
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 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.
During this flexible online course, learn how to study and analyse paintings, drawings and prints, and learn the 'language of looking'.
Discover the rich symbolism, striking realism and artistic innovation of Northern Renaissance painters like Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, and explore how their work shaped the course of European art.