Online History of Art courses

This course will seek to provide guidelines about how to look at modern art in an open-minded, critical and analytical way.

This course offers you the opportunity to learn how to study and analyse paintings, drawings and prints and learn the 'language of looking'.

Examine the major concerns of artists such as Cézanne, Monet, Manet and Degas and their intimate interaction with modern life.

From Bellini and Botticelli to tapestry and tableware, the material culture of the Italian Renaissance continues to fascinate us to this day....

The work of Northern Renaissance artists is often incredibly beautiful, with marvellous colours and textures. But there is much more to their...

The course explores the riches of Northern European art from c.1480-1580; artists including Dürer, Bosch, Holbein and Bruegel will be studied.

From Paris to Moscow, Glasgow to Barcelona, this course examines the richness and variety of European Art Nouveau.

This course is for anyone interested in understanding Islamic art and culture, by examining the relationship between faith and art forms.

This course is designed to enable students to 'read' the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way.

Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, the course traces the rise and spread of Modernism in European and...