A secondary field consisting of three courses outside art history is developed with the undergraduate adviser. A listing of courses offered through the Department of the History of Art appears below. For additional information on academics at Johns Hopkins University, including information on departments and programs of study, calendars, and admissions information, visit the Academics page of JHUniverse. I A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture. The Art of the Book from Antiquity to the Renaissance Freshman seminar explores the illuminated manuscript during the formative years of its history.
Students work closely with medieval books in local collections.
Hewlett Freshman Course. Theories of modernity, with Paris and Berlin as examples of the city as a site of modern life and a subject of modern art. Introduction to the history and criticism of modern art through a survey of the major movements in European painting, sculpture, photography and other media. From abstract painting of the 1940s to multimedia installations of the 1990s. Attention to critical problems in modernism and postmodernism.