Welcome | Department of the History of Art

Graduate seminar in the Yale Center for British Art
Kyoto Kano School, Japan, Scenes from the Tale of Genji, 1625-1650. Yale University Art Gallery
Undergraduate seminar in the Yale University Art Gallery
Haida, Northwest Coast, Canada. Basketry hat. Peabody Museum, Yale University
Frederic Edwin Church, Mt. Ktaadn, 1853. Yale University Art Gallery
Students at the Metropolitan Museum with Prof Robert Nelson’s course Art of Byzantium, 850-1200, Fall 2015
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Undergraduate seminar with Prof. Nicola Suthor in the Prints and Drawings Study Room, Yale University Art Gallery
Tino di Camaino, Three Princesses, ca. 1325-35, Yale University Art Gallery
Museum and the Nation seminar taught by Prof Kishwar Rivzi at I.M.Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar

Welcome From The Chair

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Surveys and Undergraduate Art History at Yale

January 27, 2020

For more than half a century, Yale’s History of Art Department has been dedicated to “the study of all forms of art, architecture, and visual culture in their social and historical contexts.”