History of Art

Four elements are taken:

• Core Course: Introduction to the History of Art
  
• Core Course: Antiquity after antiquity
  
• Core Course: European Art 1400–1800: Meaning and interpretation
  
• Supervised extended essay on a building, object or image in Oxford

Assessment

First University examinations:
Three written papers and one extended essay

Courses

Seven elements are taken:

• Core Course: Approaches to the History of Art
  
• Further subject in Art History (choices currently include: Anglo-Saxon archaeology; The Carolingian Renaissance; Culture and society in early Renaissance Italy; Northern European portraiture 1400–1800; Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento; Court culture and art in early modern Europe; Intellect and culture in Victorian Britain)
  
• Two 2nd Year options (choices currently include: Egyptian art and architecture; Greek art and archaeology; The formation of the Islamic World; Byzantine art: the transition from antiquity to the middle ages; Art under the Roman Empire; Gothic art through medieval eyes; Art in China since 1911; Literature and the visual arts in France; German Expressionism in literature and visual arts; European cinema; Modernism and after; The experience of modernity: Visual culture, 1880–1925)
  
• ‘Special’ subject and extended essay in Art History (choices currently include: Royal art and architecture of Norman Sicily; Politics, art and culture in Renaissance Florence and Venice; The Dutch Golden Age: 1618-1672; Painting and culture in Ming China; English architecture; Art and its public in France, 1815–67)
  
• Undergraduate thesis
  

Assessment

Final University examinations:
Four or five written papers; one or two extended essay(s), one thesis