Courtauld Graduate Diploma in the History of

ArtProfessor Sarah Wilson

Foundations• Classical and Byzantine Art

• The Middle Ages

• Renaissance Art c. 1350 – 1550

• Seventeenth-century Art

• Physical History of Works of Art

• Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

• European Art & Society c. 1700-1830

• Nineteenth- & Twentieth-century Art

• The Global Contemporary

Athens, The Parthenon.

Paul Cézanne, Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), c. 1894 – 1905.

Frameworks• What is the ‘critical difference’

between Chinese and Western approaches to painting?

• Is the social history of art necessarily indebted to Marxism?

• How might we read a work of art as a ‘text’?

• What’s postmodern about casino architecture?

Topic Courses and Period CoursesThe Graphic Image: Exploring Early Modern Northern Works in London Collections (Autumn)+Object Lessons: Art in Europe (Spring)

Patronage, Making and Meaning: The Gothic Image in England, c. 1200 – 1530 (Autumn)+History of New Media (Spring)

Taking Shape: Italian Altarpieces of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Autumn)+Art in France 1900 – 1939 (Spring)