Take your appreciation for art history, visual culture around art and design to the next level through the Brooks Museum’s art history lectures. This series covers virtually every aspect of human history and experience as it looks at works of art not just as objects, but as a way of understanding the world, and the societies in which they were created.
Lecture Dates
September 8 at 12:30 - 1:40p Intro, how to look at art | 1:50 - 3:00p Ancient Art of the Near East & Egypt
September 15 at 12:30 - 1:40p Classical Greek & Roman Art | 1:50 - 3:00p Art of the Late Roman Empire, Early Christianity, & Byzantium
September 22 at 12:30 - 1:40p 6th to 11th Centuries: Art & Architecture of the Middle Ages | 1:50 - 3:00p 11th to 13th Centuries: Romanesque & Gothic Art & Architecture
September 29 at 12:30 - 1:40p 14th & 15th Centuries: Early Renaissance Italy & Northern Europe | 1:50 - 3:00p 15th & 16th Centuries: Art & Exchange in the Age of Global Exploration
October 6 at 12:30 - 1:40p 16th Century: High Renaissance Italy & The Art of Reformation Europe | 1:50 - 3:00p 17th Century: The Counter-Reformation & Baroque Art
October 13 at 12:30 - 1:40p 18th & 19th Centuries: The Rococo, Neoclassicism, & Romanticism | 1:50 - 3:00p Late 19th Century: Realism, Impressionism, & Post-Impressionism
October 20 at 12:30 - 1:40p Early 20th Century: Cubism, Dada, & The Harlem Renaissance | 1:50 - 3:00p Mid- and Late-20 th Century: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, & Institutional Critique
October 27 at 12:30 - 1:40p Global Contemporary Art