1. Courtauld Graduate Diploma in the History of Art Professor Sarah Wilson

2. Foundations Classical and Byzantine Art The Middle Ages Renaissance Art c. 1350 – 1550 Seventeenth-century Art Physical History of Works of Art Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals European Art & Society c. 1700-1830 Nineteenth- & Twentieth-century Art The Global Contemporary Athens, The Parthenon. Paul Cézanne, Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), c. 1894 – 1905.

3. Frameworks What is the ‘critical difference’ between Chinese and Western approaches to painting? Is the social history of art necessarily indebted to Marxism? How might we read a work of art as a ‘text’? What’s postmodern about casino architecture?

4. Topic Courses and Period Courses The Graphic Image: Exploring Early Modern Northern Works in London Collections (Autumn) + Object Lessons: Art in Europe (Spring) Patronage, Making and Meaning: The Gothic Image in England, c. 1200 – 1530 (Autumn) + History of New Media (Spring) Taking Shape: Italian Altarpieces of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Autumn) + Art in France 1900 – 1939 (Spring)