Art History (ARTH)
The visual elements of art, its history, issues, functions, interpretations, materials and techniques. The creative process and the role of art and the artist in society, its reception and critical interpretation.
Studies in art history for the non-major participating in a Baylor approved international program. May be repeated once with a change in content.
Architecture, painting, sculpture and other media in relation to styles and cultural patterns from prehistoric times to 1400 CE. Includes the creative process and the role of art and the artist in society, their reception and critical interpretation.
Architecture, painting, sculpture and other media in relation to styles and cultural patterns from 1400 CE to the present. Includes the creative process and the role of art and the artist in society, their reception and critical interpretation.
Greek art and archaeology from the Aegean Bronze Age through the first century BCE with emphasis on stylistic trends, the social functions of Greek art and material objects, and the relationship between art and various aspects of Greek life and thought.
Roman art and archaeology, beginning with the Etruscans and Archaic Rome, to the end of the fourth century CE. The social and political functions of objects and architecture are highlighted within historical and cultural contexts.
Art created between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries with an emphasis on architecture.
Art of nineteenth-century Europe focusing on technique and style with political and social contexts.
Seventeenth-century painting, sculpture and architecture with Italy as the vanguard country. Significant attention given to Spain and includes paintings from France, Flanders, and Holland.
Special attention will be given to the painters Van Eyck, Dürer, and Bruegel.
Art of eighteenth-century Europe focusing on technique and style with political and social contexts.
Selected examples of art studies in situ in art centers of Europe, supplemented by readings, lectures, and collected illustrations and catalogs.
Primary methods and theories used in the study of the history of art.
Major female artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.
For Art majors only. Specialized field study with a specific destination for established art and art history students. Includes a research component. Requires concurrent enrollment in a listed co-requisite course. May be repeated four times with a change of content. Course does not apply to major or minor credit hours.
A research seminar on a selected topic of 18th- or 19th-century art. Subject varies year to year. May be repeated once with a change in content.
A research seminar on a selected major artist or topic of early modern European art. Subject varies year to year. May be repeated once with a change in content.
Modern art in the Americas from 1880 to 1945. Includes major artistic movements and their political, social, and historical contexts.
Artistic expression in the United States from the Colonial Period to 1900.
A research seminar focused on the major trends in painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance, video, installation, and conceptual art from the 1960s to the present.
Topics not covered in other courses. Topic announced for semester or session; may emphasize a particular artist, movement, genre, theme, or problem. May be repeated once.
Art of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movements, 1850-1900, focusing on technique and style with social and political contexts.
Techniques, stylistic changes, and social use and function of Greek painted pottery and its imagery from the Late Aegean Bronze Age through the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods. Focus is on vessels in the Archaic and Classical periods.
Modern art in Europe from Post-Impressionism to 1945.
Art of the Neoclassicism and Romanticism movements, 1750-1850, focusing on technique and style with social and political contexts.
Roman sculpture from the Republic to Constantine (c. 313 CE) focusing on style and technique with political and social contexts.
A selective study of the art of Italy during the Renaissance period (c. 1300-1550) as seen within its historical context. Emphasis on the art of Florence and Rome.
A specialized study of Mannerism (c.1520-85) painting as a transition between the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy. Emphasis on the cities of Florence and Rome.
A specialized study of a major artist(s) or topic of Italian Renaissance or Baroque art. Subject varies year to year. May be repeated once with a change of content.
A research seminar on Greek or Roman Art and Architecture. May be repeated once with a change of content.
History, origins, and political and social functions of sport and spectacle in Greece and Rome viewed through art, architecture, and material culture.
The sources, development, style and meaning of Michelangelo’s art and the art of his sixteenth-century contemporaries within the historical context.
Modern art in a global context from 1945 to 1970, focusing on the development of Abstract Expressionism and its legacies.
A field experience under the supervision of qualified museum or gallery personnel, which will make it possible for the student to receive on-the-job training in an area of art history.
Thesis preparing qualified seniors for graduate work in art history.
See ENG 43C1 for course information.
For Art majors only. Qualified students with established success in art history may research and report on special areas or topics in art history. May be repeated once with a change in content.
Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.