History of Art: Undergraduate Course Lectures

Oxford University

A ‘taster’ selection of lectures delivered to History of Art Undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. Find out more about other History of Art events, lectures and courses on the History of Art Department homepage (https://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/)

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Updated Dec 7, 2017

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Dec 7, 2017 · 1 hr
Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.
Jul 11, 2016 · 55 min
Jan Brueghel and his Views of Italian Ruins
This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Antiquity After Antiquity" and is for first year Undergraduate History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. An Van Camp (Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) explores the practice of Netherlandish artists travelling to Italy from the fifteenth until the seventeenth century. The lecture starts with an overview of the different kinds of Netherlandish artists and their reasons why they went to Italy (illustrated mainly by works on paper from the collections of the Ashmolean Museum). The second part of the lecture focuses on Jan Brueghel the Elder in particular and the different types of drawings he made in Italy after he returned to Flanders, some in preparation of print series.
Mar 29, 2016 · 55 min
Core Course: Modernism and Post-modernism
This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Art History: Concepts and Methods" and is for second year Undergraduate and MSt History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. This lecture introduces students to the stylistic and theoretical frameworks of post-modernism, distinguishing its characteristics from those associated with modernism, and exploring its varied expressions in art, architecture and visual culture from the 1960s until the present.
May 6, 2014 · 1 hr
Core Course: Space: Approaches to Architecture
This lecture forms part of series entitled 'Art History: Concepts and Methods', offered to second year Undergraduate and MSt History of Art students.
May 6, 2014 · 50 min
Core Course: Artists' Names
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.
May 6, 2014 · 50 min
Core Course: Art and Art History: Painting in China
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.
Mar 11, 2011 · 54 min
Core Course: Modernism and Mass Culture
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.
Mar 11, 2011 · 50 min
Core Course: Women as Patrons of the Arts in Early Modern Europe
This lecture forms part of series entitled 'Introduction to the History of Art', a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.
Mar 11, 2011 · 52 min
Core Course: Painting as visual and material culture in Ming China
This lecture is one of a series of eight relating to an optional third year undergraduate course, 'Painting and Culture in Ming China' which can be taken by History of Art and History students.