Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

On Main Street in Port Washington, a corner storefront once filled with books now houses centuries of European craftsmanship. Inside European Decorative Arts, cabinets and mantels display bronzes, ...

Anyone expecting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s groundbreaking survey of European women artists from 1400-1800 to simply ascend a group of overlooked female painters to a heightened status equal that ...

Looking at Salvador Dalí’s bizarre, inscrutable canvases, it’s hard to imagine his inspirations as anything earth-bound. Like any self-respecting Surrealist, the artist drew ideas from dreams, ...

Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

As I first stepped into the European Art pavilion, I found myself surrounded by color: maroon, gold, and blue hues covered the walls as ceramics, paintings, and prints from diverse eras, artists, and ...

The Art History area allows you the opportunity to study art and visual culture in context, analyzing the intersection of artistic expression and cultural function. Our faculty lead upper-level ...