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Art History summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2024
Modern Art in Paris
Modern Art In Paris offers an introduction to the history of Western modern art and provides a foundation in the knowledge and skills of art history. It focuses on 18 leading artis...
The Golden Age of Dutch Art
top courseAre you curious to learn more about Rembrandt's 'Nightwatch', Vermeer's 'Girl with the pearl earring', Hals's 'Laughing figures' or other Dutch masterpieces from the 17th century?...
The Art of the Renaissance in Florence and Rome
top courseFlorence, originally founded by the Romans, was governed by the Medici family for centuries. Most of them had a passionate interest in painting, sculpture, architecture and literat...
History of European Art: Local Traditions and Transnational Networks
top courseDon’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! This course explores European art from the 15th to the 20th century...
Re/Making: Ecologies of Care in Art and Heritage
top courseRe/Making: Ecologies of Care in Art and Cultural Heritage focuses on sustainable approaches to production, handling and exhibition of artworks and cultural artifacts. The summer sc...
Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture
Annually, the Summer Course brings a select group of 18 highly qualified young researchers to Flanders. They are offered an intensive 11-day programme of lectures, discussions, and...
Art in Germany from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
top courseDon’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! The course is part of a Multi-City Program in cooperation with Utre...
Discovering Medieval and Renaissance Paintings - Technique and Conservation
top courseEnrich your knowledge in Italian Medieval and Renaissances art by a combination of theorical lessons, practical workshops and museum visits.
History of Art: Highlights in Germany and the Netherlands - Track
top courseThis four-week course if offered in collaboration with the Freie Universität in Berlin. By combining studies from Utrecht and Berlin, you will be able to get a glimpse of several c...
History of Art: A Thousand Years of European Highlights
top courseThe Utrecht Summer School offers an opportunity to travel back in time and experience the art from both traditions first hand, staying in two cities that played a pivotal part in t...
Art in Norway
The course provides a survey of Norwegian visual art from the early medieval period to contemporary art. Primary focus is on painting, but developments in sculpture, architecture,...
History of European Art: Travelling Artists and Artworks
top courseDon’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! This course explores European art from the 15th to the 20th century...
A Journey through Dutch Art
top courseExperience the highlights of Dutch art from the last 400 years at first hand! This track covers many of the country's most renowned artists, museums and cities. Discover the famous...
Contemporary Art and Curatorship: from Documenta to the Biennale
The Summer School will offer two distinct but interconnected 2-week modules that together will investigate the history, management principles, and strategies of the two art institu...
Art in Germany from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
top courseThroughout the course in Berlin, we will focus on the circumstances that shaped the production and reception of German art during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During thi...
Liberal Arts Focus
The European Summer Program is a four-week intercultural and interactive academic course for international students who want to discover France and Europe. It has taken place in Ju...
Liverpool, Global Art City
top courseThis course provides an introduction to the wide range of public sculpture and art collections in Liverpool and its role in marketing the city as a tourist destination and gaining...
Arts Management
top courseThe course is meant to be a stimulating and intriguing introduction to the themes of art management through a glimpse into art debates, elements of project management, analysis and...
History of Art: Relations between Italy and the Netherlands - Track
top courseThe Utrecht Summer School offers an opportunity to travel back in time and experience the art from both traditions first hand, staying in two cities that played a pivotal part in t...
Dutch Art from Van Gogh to Mondrian
top courseThis course takes you through Dutch art from the 18th and 19th century, up to the early decades of modernism. After the grand 'Golden Age', innovations in the art world stagnated,...
Past courses
Roman Sarcophagi as Image Ensembles
top courseThe Winter School is offered as part of a partnership between the University of Pisa (Italy) and the University of Kiel (Germany). The Winter School addresses image relations on R...
Risk Management for Cultural Heritage. Challenges and Strategies for the GLAM Sector and UNESCO Sites
The University of Padova is organising the International Spring School "Risk Management for Cultural Heritage. Challenges and Strategies for the GLAM Sector and UNESCO Sites", an i...
Courses 2023
Visualizing Cities Summer Institute | Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Art History Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR
This is a a two-year Advanced Topics in Digital Art History Summer Institute on the topic “Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Art History Projects to Publics through Digital Exh...
Art and Memory in Practices of Commemorations After Mass Atrocities
What role do commemorations play in the construction of collective memory in places afflicted by extreme war violence? How do different forms of commemoration create or hinder incl...
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the Scenes Experience
Join us in Venice at the very special time - the closing week of the world-famous Venice Biennale! The Venice Biennale is the oldest and most prestigious art and architecture sh...
Poshak: Understanding Diversity Through "Bollywood" Costumes
top courseThe word diversity is almost a synonym to India. It has existed in every aspect of the Indian aesthetics. During this 7-day-workshop we will have a deep look into the film producti...
Exhibiting Architecture - Media, Methods, Agents
The AA Visiting School Zurich invites students and practitioners, from the fields of architecture, design, art, curating, and theory to re-imagine architecture exhibitions, its med...
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the Scenes Experience
Join us in Venice at the very special time - opening week of the world famous Venice Biennale! The Venice Biennale is the oldest and most prestigious art and architecture show i...
Art – Czech Language & Culture
The summer school focused on basic knowledge of Czech art, language, and culture. Traditional graphic techniques, drawing, batik, 3D animation, and art therapy are all part of the...
The Age of Rubens
Annually, the Summer Course brings a select group of 18 highly qualified young researchers to Flanders. They are offered an intensive 11-day programme of lectures, discussions, and...
Contemporary Art - Framework to Develop Your Ideas
The course CONTEMPORARY ART. Framework to develop your ideas helps participants develop their personal projects within the art world and take them to a whole new level. You will w...
Critical Approaches to Typography
An intensive 5-day programme on the value of research for a better understanding of type and typography. In this programme theory and demonstrations are interspersed with stud...
Solidarity in Time: Non Aligned Movement and Contemporary Art
Solidarity in time: Non Aligned Movement and Contemporary Art deals with the images of history and artistic returns to anti-colonial and alter-global politics of the Non-Aligned Mo...
International Heritage Summer School 2023
The DCTP - Department of Heritage Studies and the CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Centre "Culture, Space and Memory" of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto are...
Art Practice and the Human Beyond our Species
In the past decade anthropologists have directed their studies of the human beyond our species, considering other lifeforms as selves in their own right. For example, Eduardo Kohn’...
Courses 2022
International Heritage Summer School 2022
International Heritage Summer School 2022 (IHSS 2022) is a laboratory learning experience, merging theoretical contributions to observation, interpretation and methodological recor...
Venice Biennale - Everything You Need to Know on Curating and Organizing
online courseEverything you need to know about curating and organizing an exhibition or a pavilion at the (Venice) Biennale. What is necessary to know about permissions, promotion, funding and...
Between Past and Future
Established in 2018, Kuma International Summer School is the first program solely dedicated to contemporary art practices produced in the context of conflict and trauma. The school...
Porto Illustration Summer School
From analogue to digital illustration, students will participate in a creative and productive atmosphere for two weeks under the guidance of our international awarded team of tutor...
Digital Archives
The ongoing process of digitalization presents film archives with the necessity of changing their workflows, strategies, and policies and of providing their staff with additional t...
Courses 2021
Remembering as Future
blended courseThe course will deal with the artistic legacy of the avant-garde left. By focusing on recent projects of actualising avant-garde art, the course will discuss the theoretical and hi...
Museum, critical review
blended courseThe purpose of this seminar is to revisit and revise the main analyses of the Museum produced since the 1950s: the critical interventions of artists, the proposals of architects, t...
The Artist Speaks: Art and Art Writing in the Long Twentieth Century
online courseDeveloped in association with Barbican, this six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will explore art writing within modern art. The relationship betwee...
Perceptions of Truth in Photography
online courseDeveloped in association with Barbican, this six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will provide you with an introduction to the history of photography...
Understanding Contemporary Art: Performance Art
online courseDeveloped in collaboration with Barbican, this six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will offer a thorough guide to performance art, from its experime...
Brutal Beauty: The Art and Life of Jean Dubuffet
online courseThis six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, developed in collaboration with Barbican, will look at the life and work of one of the most acclaimed post...
Summer course in Curatorial Studies
online courseWhy is the Venice Biennale still the leading international art shows? The Venice Biennale has been for over 120 years one of the most prestigious cultural institutions. The arts ex...
Courses 2020
The Venice Biennale
online courseOnline Course, 22 October – 15 November 2020 The lecture will take place from Thursday to Sunday 5 pm – 7.30 pm (CET) Why is the Venice Biennale still the leading international ar...
Courses 2019
Dutch Art History
The course is about Dutch art – with an emphasis on painting. Ever since the Middle Ages the Netherlands has played a pivotal role in the history of European art and culture. Dutch...
Courses 2018
Visualizing Venice Summer Institute: Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks
Digital Technologies for Historical and Cultural visualization are transforming the ways that scholars can study and represent works of art, as well as growth and change in urban s...
Courses 2017
History of Art: European Highlights
Stay in three of Europe's most wonderful cities, cover some 2000 years of Western art, visit all the relevant museums and sites and yet feel like you’ve done more than just skim th...
Nothing Is What It Seems: Dutch Art of the Golden Age
In this course you will embark on a fascinating journey where nothing is what it seems: an innocent bouquet of flowers hides a forbidden religious message, a happy family, where ev...