Deepen your understanding of Early Renaissance to High Renaissance art, the role of patronage, and how the Renaissance continues to influence modern creativity.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
This course aims to give students an introduction and overview of that architectural tradition enabling students to 'read' the architecture of the contemporary built environment in a critically informed way.
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.
How can art give form to the invisible? This course explores the theological and philosophical idea of beauty in Renaissance art, examining how artists used various visual elements to make the divine visible.
Discover the richness and diversity of Oxford's art collections. Explore first hand the many facets of world-class museums and galleries, such as the Ashmolean, History of Science, Natural History, and Pitt Rivers museums.
An introduction to modern art in Europe in the early twentieth century, exploring the range of styles and debates that emerged in response to modernity, industrialisation, and war.
Discover Aphrodite beyond the familiar goddess of beauty: a powerful and complex deity of love, desire and persuasion, whose influence shaped Greek religion, myth and literature - and whose power could be creative, compelling and dangerous.
Explore the dazzling richness and exuberance of Baroque art and architecture - from the earliest experiments of Michelangelo, to the voluptuous sensuality of Bernini, and beyond. Artists studied will include Borromini, Titian, Caravaggio, and Rubens.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writings.
How did artists respond when protest, war, empire, and industrialisation transformed France? This course explores how painters from Boucher to Manet reimagined art in relation to modern life.
