Master's Degree - Arts of Europe: Antiquity | Middle Ages | Renaissance
Discover the visual and material culture that forms the roots of Western civilisation with our Arts of Europe programme.
Course Content
- The Art and Culture of Ancient Iraq, Persia, and Egypt
- Depiction of the Human form in Greek and Hellenistic Art
- Architectural Form and Meaning in the Ancient World
- Art, Politics and Power during the Roman Empire
- The New Art of the Early Christian era
- The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts and Metalwork
- Sacred and Luxurious Art before and after Charlemagne
- Byzantium and its culture
- Colour and Narrative in Medieval Stained Glass, Panel Painting and Illuminated Manuscripts
- Ivory, Enamels and Textiles from the Treasuries of Europe
- The Birth of Italian Painting: Duccio, Giotto and the Trecento
- International Gothic and the Princely Courts of Europe
- Re-inventing Sculpture and Architecture in early Renaissance Europe
- Icons of the High Renaissance: Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo
Course Components
- The core lecture series c.3000 BC to AD 1527 underpins all components of the programme
- You will participate in two study trips a year to major sites in Europe and several visits to UK sites throughout the year
- Object-based study is central to our teaching and will provide you with relevant training for the public and commercial art worlds. This includes practical and research based study of materials and techniques, scientific analysis, style, dating, quality and authenticity
- You will be trained in cataloguing to auction house and museum standards. Handling sessions and warehouse and museum visits all occur during the course
- Being engaged with current debates about curating will enable you to devise fresh approaches to the display of art works. You'll explore practices in art criticism, developing skills to review exhibitions and produce reports
- Our Culture and Ideology Seminars will teach you the importance of iconography, patronage and artistic context of Early European works of art. You will acquire the skills to deliver presentations and generate seminar discussion
- You'll be involved in Methodology Seminars - the analysis of technical, art-historical and interpretative texts that provide transferable skills for independent research and individual development
- If you're doing a Master's degree you will prepare a thesis. This is your opportunity to create an exhibition on a small group of objects, independently researched and catalogued, where the key academic and professional skills learned on the programme are utilised.
Entry Requirements
A university degree. We welcome students who have graduated in a wide range of subjects, including classics, archaeology, history, languages as well as art history and other disciplines. Non-English speaking students must have IELTS 8 or equivalent.
Master’s - Arts of Europe
Course Dates
Term 1
Thursday 30 September 2010
– Friday 10 December 2010
Term 2
Monday 10 January 2011
– Friday 18 March 2011
Term 3
Wednesday 27 April 2011
– Friday 1 July 2011