The following is a sampling of graduate courses regularly offered.

Art History Lecture Courses

30100. Art of Ancestral Worship: Chinese Art from Prehistorical to the Third Century
Wu

30200. The Greek Revolution Revisited: Rethinking Naturalism
Neer

30400. Athenian Vase-Painting: Depiction and Ideology
Neer

31400. Byzantine Manuscript Illumination
Nelson

31500. Alienation and Assimilation: The Visual Culture of Medieval China
Purtle

31800. Monstrosity in Medieval Art
Camille

31900. Medieval Paris
Camille

32100. The Medieval Monastery: Architecture,
Art and Activity
Seidel

32400. Domestic Arts,
the Construction and Representation of Secular Life in Late Medieval Europe
Seidel

32600. Pious Journeys: Pilgrimage and Devotional Practices of the Later
Middle Ages
Seidel

32700. High Renaissance Painting in Florence and Rome
Cohen

32800. The Renaissance in Venice
Cohen

33000. From Steppe to City: Arts of the Mongol Empire
Purtle

33100. Gardens in Italy, France and England, 1600–1800
Rorschach

34200. Sites of Power: Art and Patronage in England, 1520–1820
Rorschach

35000. European Romanticism
Stafford

35400. Ideas of the City in the Early 20th Century
Taylor

35600. Ancients and Moderns
Stafford

35700. Perspectives on Imaging
Stafford, Beck

35800. Visual Culture
Mitchell

35900. 19th Century American Landscapes
Staff

36000. Art and Film in the Weimar Republic
Heller

36100. French Art and Its Reception, 1848–1914
Ward

36200. Cinema and Magic
Gunning

36300. 20th Century American Landscapes
Staff

36400. History of Photography 1839–1969
Snyder

36500. The Sites of Twentieth Century Art
Ward

36800. Modern Dwelling
Taylor

36900. Philosophy and Visual Culture
Snyder

37000. “As the Century Turns”: German and Scandinavian Art and Culture around 1900
Heller

37200. Theories of the Photographic Image and Film
Snyder

37500. Eisenstein and Soviet Aesthetic Theory
Tsivian

37600. The Imperial Arts of the Inca and Aztec
Cummins

38300. Chinese Scroll Painting: Medium and Representation
Wu

38500. History of International Cinema I: Silent Era
Tsivian

38600. History of International Cinema II: Sound Era to 1960
Gunning

38700. The Art of Confrontation: Chinese Visual Culture in the 20th Century
Purtle

38900. Charlie Chaplin: The Man, The Artist, The Cultural Hero
Tsivian

39300. Styles of Performance and Expression from Stage to Screen
Tsivian

39700. Historiography of Modern Architecture
Taylor

39900. Methods and Issues in Film Study
Gunning

This list was last revised on 9/03/2003.

Seminars

40100. Art Historical Methodologies
Nelson

40300. The Treasury-Buildings at Delphi and Olympia
Neer

40600. What is Style?
Neer

41300. Hagia Sophia
Nelson

41500. Monuments
Nelson

41700. Byzantium and Neighbors
Nelson

41800. The Abject in Gothic Art
Camille

41900. Sexuality in Medieval Visual Culture
Camille

42200. Remaking the Middle Ages
Seidel

42300. North Italian Painters: Lotto and Pordenone
Cohen

43000. Giorgione: Connoisseurship and Meaning
Cohen

43300. Roman Mannerism
Cohen

44100. Text and Image in Victorian Britain
Helsinger

44300. Cuzco, 1650–1700
Cummins

44500. Visions and Virgins: Miraculous Images in Colonial Latin America
Cummins

44900. Picturing Natural History
Stafford

45000. Art and Medicine: From the Enlightenment to Postmodernism
Stafford

45200. 19th Century Cinema
Gunning

45400. Landscapes
Mitchell

46100. Expressionism in the Visual Arts, Literature and Film
Heller, Tsivian

46200. Der Blaue Reiter
Heller

46400. A Voyage to Abyssinia: Mixed Media of Travel
Stafford

46500. Cultural History of Architecture at the University of Chicago Campus
Taylor

46600. Pop Art and Popular Culture of the 1950’s and 60’s
Heller

46800. The Museum: Collecting
Ward

47000. The Skyscraper
Taylor

47200. The Ends of American Photography
Mitchell, Synder

47300. Strategies of Seeing: The Xuanhe huapu and Northern Song Painting
Purtle

47400. Rethinking Chinese Tombs
Wu

47500. Materiality of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Wu

47600. Place and Product: Geocultural Issues and the Cultural Topography of Ming Painting
Purtle

47700. Female Images and Feminine Space in Chinese Art
Wu

47800. Theories and Visualities of Historicity in Yuan Painting Practice: Text, Image, Exegesis
Purtle

48200. Dunhuang Sutra Painting
Wu

48300. Film and Melodrama
Gunning

49300. Symbolism and Film
Tsivian

49500. Art Law
Rorschach

49900. Historiography
Heller