UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
ARTH200 Art of the Western World to 1300 (Professor Venit)
MW 11-11:50 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH201 Art of the Western World after 1300 (Professor Promey)
TuTh 9:30-10:20 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH 250, Art and Archaeology of Ancient America (Professor Bland)
MW 10-10:50 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH275 Art and Archaeology of Africa (Professor Strychasz)
TuTh 11-11:50 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH290 Art of Asia (Professor Bari)
MW 9-9:50 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH314 Gothic Art(Professor Kornbluth)
TuTh 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3215)
ARTH321 Sixteenth-Century Northern European Art (Professor Martinez)
TuTh 11-12:15 (ASY 3211)
ARTH323 Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Art (Professor Joost-Gaugier)
TuTh 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3211)
ARTH330 Seventeenth-Century European Art (Professor Georgievska-Shine)
TuTh 3:30-4:45 (ASY 3211)
ARTH335 Seventeenth-Century Art in the Netherlands (Professor Georgievska-Shine)
TuTh 11-12:15 (ASY 3215)
ARTH343 Eighteenth-Century European Art (Professor Pressly)
TuTh 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3215)
ARTH345 Nineteenth-Century European Art to 1850 (Professor Hargrove)
TuTh 3:30-4:45 (ASY 3215)
ARTH351 Twentieth-Century Art from 1945 (Professor Adams)
TuTh 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3211)
ARTH370
Latin American Art & Archaeology before 1500 (Professor
Quilter)
M 6-8:30 (ASY 3211)
ARTH386 (PermReq) Experiential Learning; Individual Instruction Course
TBD
ARTH389B Modern Latin American Art (Professor Bland)
M 2-4:30 (ASY 3211)
ARTH457 History of Photography (Professor Grossman)
TuTh 2-3:15 (ASY 3211)
ARTH488B Colloquium in Art History: Gauguin & His Contemporaries (Professor Hargrove)
TuTh 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3217)
ARTH488C Colloquium in Art History: Shakespeare in British Art (Professor Pressly)
TuTh 2-3:15 (ASY 3219)
ARTH489A Special Topics in Art History: Western Film & the Vision of the West
(Professor Metcalf)
Th 3:30-7:00 (HBK 4210T)
ARTH498 (PermReq) Directed Studies in Art History I. Individual Instruction Course
TBD
ARTH499 (PermReq) Honors Thesis. Individual Instruction Course
TBD
GRADUATE COURSES
ARTH 608: Studies in Ancient Art and Archaeology
Greek Myth in Greek and Roman Art
Professor Marjorie Venit
Wednesday 3-5:40
This colloquium will examine selected examples of Greek
myths as visual expressions of cultural discourse in public
and private contexts in Greek and Roman art. It will investigate
how myth functions as a symbolic system to express social,
ideological, and religious objectives in the Greek and
Roman world.
The colloquium will also provide an introduction to the
many bibliographical sources and apparatuses available
for the study of the visualization of Greek myth.
ARTH 639: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Northern European
Art
Rembrandt: the Portrait and the Portrait Historie
Professor Arthur Wheelock
Monday 3-5:40
This seminar will focus on Rembrandt's remarkable genius
as a portrait artist, not only as a painter but also as
a printmaker and draughtsman. To place Rembrandt into
his historical context, we will also look at Dutch portrait
traditions as well as examples by Italian and Flemish
artists that were important to him as sources of inspiration.
We will examine both formal portraits and fanciful portraits,
including those in which Rembrandt depicted himself, Saskia
and Hendrickje in the guise of historical figures. This
course will be related to an upcoming exhibition. A number
of the class meetings will be held at the National Gallery
of Art.
ARTH 658: Studies in American Art
American Paintings 1750-1950: Studies in Connoisseurship,
Conservation and Curatorial Practices
Professor Frank Kelly
Thursday 3-5:40
This course will examine a wide variety of American paintings
with particular focus on them as actual physical objects
that can be investigated and examined in a number of potentially
revealing ways. Among the topics that will be considered
will be how to determine authorship and attribution, how
to evaluate physical condition, and how to use tools such
as x-ray and infrared reflectography. The course will
be grounded in what may be considered “forensic
art history” and will combine both classroom meetings
and sessions held in the galleries and conservation labs
of the National Gallery.
ARTH 692: Methods of Art History
Professor Sally Promey
Tuesday 12-2:40
This course provides a graduate-level introduction to
art historical method and the philosophical foundations
of the discipline of art history.
ARTH 709: Seminar in Late Roman, Early Christian and Byzantine
Art
Burial Chapels in the Late Middle Ages (13th-15th century)
Professor Sharon Gerstel
Tuesday 3-5:40
The burial chapels of Enrico Scrovegni (the Arena Chapel,
Padua) and Theodore Metochites (the Chora parekklesion,
Constantinople) are but two of a large number of elaborate
chapels built to house the remains of the wealthy in fourteenth-century
Byzantium and the West. In this course we will examine
the motivations of patronage, archaeological evidence
for death and burial (including medical pathologies),
the texts of funeral and commemorative rites, the furnishings
of chapels, tomb architecture and epitaphs, and monumental
decoration surrounding burials. We will also examine questions
of penance, purgatory, and notions of salvation and damnation
in the East and West in order to see how visions of the
afterlife affected the creation of memorials that were
intended to serve both as transtemporal chambers and as
memorials directed at varying communities of Christian
viewers.
ARTH 748: Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Art
American Artists in England: West, Copley, Trumbull, and
Stuart
Professor William Pressly
Friday 1-3:40
This course will examine the careers of four artists,
who, born in America, were profoundly influenced by their
interaction with European culture. They, in their turn,
helped inaugurate and develop new possibilities such as
the creation of history paintings of modern subjects.
Benjamin West’s career will be considered in its
entirety, while the focus on the remaining artists will
be limited to only their english periods.
ARTH 759: Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art
The Mythology of Modernism
Professor Steven Mansbach
Wednesday 4-6:40
The prevailing definition and paradigms of Modernism mostly
derive from the theory–and especially the propaganda–of
figures such as Gropius, Le Corbusier, Oud, and their
advocates in galleries, museums, art studios and media.
Yet, so-called "Bauhaus" modernism was but one
of many contending ideologies and styles of modernism,
most all of which posited parallel claims and justifications
though manifesting them quite differently and with disparate
results. The present seminar will examine the complexity,
contradictoriness, and contentiousness of the originary
modernisms of the early twentieth century. We will also
investigate the historiographical reasons why multiple
modernisms eventuated in a single one.
