Mount Holyoke’s Art History department offers courses in all eras of art history, including the arts and architecture of Europe, America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
The Classroom Experience
An overview of European and American art from the Renaissance to the present.
Learn about art’s relationship to violent political revolution, dramatic industrial change, widespread social unrest, and the birth of modern mass culture.
Collecting Antiquity, Seminar in Ancient Art: This seminar studies the collecting and display of Greek and Roman objects from antiquity to the present.
This course explores cross-cultural encounters far beyond the confines of Europe.
Tinker with old cameras, handle early daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, and study photographs from the museum’s huge collection.
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