Courses

• GRS AH 798: Colloquium in Twentieth-Century Architecture
  In conjunction with the CAS AH 398 lecture course, this colloquium focuses on main figures, events, artifacts of twentieth-century architectural history.
• GRS AH 802: Sem A-H Writing
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AH 803: Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Taught by curators of the museum. Topics vary.
• GRS AH 804: Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Taught by curators of the museum. Topics vary.
• GRS AH 812: Seminar: Portraiture
  Topic: Art History and biography.
• GRS AH 820: Seminar: Asian Art
  Topic for Spring 2010: Kyoto. Explores the long cultural history of Kyoto as imperial capital from founding in the late eighth century to today. Analyzes the artistic and architectural footprints of ruling aristocrats, priests, and warriors; investigates the places, products, and events unique to the city.
• GRS AH 822: Seminar: African Art
  In-depth discussion of special topics in the study of African art and architecture. Topic for Spring 2009: African Islam at the Saharan Crossroads.
• GRS AH 833: Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
  Examines important issues in the study of Greek Antiquity using objects, literature and history of the period. Readings drawn from primary and secondary sources.
• GRS AH 834: Sem Rom Art/Arc
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AH 844: Seminar: Medieval Art and Architecture
  
• GRS AH 846: Seminar: Romanesque and Gothic Art
  Detailed study of the castles, cathedrals, and works of art produced in Anglo-Norman England. Topics include contemporary attitudes toward images, monastic art, allegory, nostalgia, symbolism, parody, the grotesque, building techniques, and patronage. Among the works studied are Canterbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, the Tower of London, and the Bayeux Tapestry.
• GRS AH 853: Seminar: Renaissance Art and Architecture
  Topic for Fall 2010: The Renaissance Studiolo.
• GRS AH 854: Seminar: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting
  Topic: Titian
• GRS AH 863: Seminar: Baroque Art and Architecture
  Topics vary annually. Topic for Fall 2010: Johannes Vermeer.
• GRS AH 867: Material Culture
  Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Explores contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines. Also offered as GRS AM 867.
• GRS AH 884: Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Architecture
  Topic for Spring 2010: Inside the Institution. This research seminar examines institutional architecture from the seventeenth century to the present. Recent scholarship on power relationships, gender ordering, spatial politics, and the histories of science, medicine, and religion is applied to these building complexes.
• GRS AH 886: Seminar: American Painting
  Topic for Spring 2010: The Visual Culture of Civil War America. Focus on American visual culture from 1850 to 1870--Slavery, Sectionalism, Civil War, Emancipation, the Death of Lincoln, and Reconstruction-- in painting, sculpture, book illustration, the illustrated weeklies, photography, exhibitions, and organized urban spectacles.
• GRS AH 887: Seminar: American Art
  Topic for Spring 2008: American Figurative Painting 1930-1955. Focuses on art and politics in America during the years of the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.
• GRS AH 888: Seminar: Twentieth-Century American Painting
  Topic to be announced.
• GRS AH 889: Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Art
  Topics vary annually. Topic for Spring 2009: Impressionism through Symbolism. An exploration of major currents in European art, from the representation of modern life and the Impressionists to the quest for spirit and sensation.

Note that this information may change at any time.

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