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Study of Art and Literature (Research), track Art History

Master

This Research Master’s programme is a two-year programme, consisting of four semesters. It offers six specialisations, four centred around four professorships of Art History, and two affiliated fields of expertise, reflecting the research interests of the staff:

  • History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art

  • Art and Visual Culture of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

  • History and Theory of Architecture

  • History of Decorative Arts, Industrial Design and the Domestic Interior

Affiliated fields of expertise:

  • History and Theory of Collections

  • History of Art and Material Culture of East Asia & South and Southeast Asia.

First Year

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Allegory: Reading Differently, Speaking Other 10
Practices and Debates in Art History 10

Choose one Lecture Course:
Contemporary Art and Theory & World Art Studies. Concepts of Place and Time in Contemporary Art 10
Early Modern Art and Architecture in the Low Countries and Italy. Patronage in Naples and Rome 1500 – 1700 10
Material culture, applied arts and collections & Asian art. The domestic Culture of the Cape 10
Sharing the tales of the Buddha: on using, perceiving and transferring Buddhist narratives through art across Asia. 10

Choose one Research Course:
Contemporary Art and Theory & World Art Studies. Eying one another: (contemporary) portraiture from a cross-cultural perspective 10
Early Modern Art and Architecture in the Low Countries and Italy. The Villa. Histories of a typology from the Villa Madama to the Villa dall-Ava 10
Material culture, applied arts and collections & Asian art. Museums, Collections and Cultural Politics 10
Material culture, applied arts and collections & Asian art. What art history is in Asia 10

One elective course
Interculturality-2: The Global Imagination: Art, Luiterature and Interculturality 10
Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Narrativity in Renaissance and Baroque Painting 10
Methodological Concepts in Art and Literature 10

MPhil/MA
Modern and Contemporary Studies: Art, Science and Technology in the 20th and 21st Century 10
Modern and Contemporary Studies: Decorative arts, industrial design and the domestic interior in written sources and literary narratives 10
Research Colloquium 'Slavery and Memory' 10