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Art History summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2022
Dutch Art from Mesdag to Van Gogh and Mondrian (1700-1920s)
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,...
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...
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 institut...
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...
Art in Germany from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
The course is part of a Multi-City Program in cooperation with Utrecht Summer School and the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. The course will introduce Be...
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...
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...
History of European Art: Local Traditions and Transnational Networks
This course explores European art from the 15th to the 20th century with a particular focus on urban centers like Florence, Rome, Venice, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, London, and Ber...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
History of European Art: Travelling Artists and Artworks
This course explores European art from the 15th to the 20th century with a particular focus on the travels of artists between urban centers like Florence, Rome, Venice, Antwerp, Am...
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the Scene 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...
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...
Contemporary Art - Framework to Develop and Refine your Ideas
It is probably the most unusual art education you will ever have. It makes you revise your place in the contemporary art paradigm, analyze your beliefs, and get involved in project...
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...
Dutch Art of the Golden Age
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?...
Past courses
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the scene 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...
Courses 2021
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...
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...
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...
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...
Key Exhibitions and History of the Venice Biennale
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...
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...
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
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...
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...