Fine Arts – Art History
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Highlights
Internships
In recent years, students have interned at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Evergreen House of The Johns Hopkins University, at Sotheby's auction house, and at regional and local museums, galleries, and auction houses in the Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore/Washington metropolitan areas.
Placement
Recent graduates have held positions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Textile Museum, the Hudson River Museum and Sotheby’s auction house; they have also pursued graduate study at New York University and Fordham University.
Program Description
Art history considers objects as expressions of individuality as well as social and cultural productions. An interdisciplinary field, art history explores the cultural, literary, religious, political, economic and philosophical factors that contribute to shaping artistic creation throughout history.
Loyola College offers a major in art history; interdisciplinary majors and minors are also possible. Because of our central location, students can take advantage of the rich holdings in museums and galleries in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, as well as in Philadelphia and New York.
Curriculum
At the introductory level, courses survey the history of art from the Paleolithic age to the Gothic era and from the Renaissance to the Modern era, the art of Africa adn Islamic art. Among the learning aims for these courses are a broad knowledge of the history of art and architecture, a working vocabulary for analyzing artistic production and the ability to communicate skills verbally and in writing.
Students in upper-division courses focus on smaller periods of time in greater depth (for instance, on the Baroque era) or special topics (such as the history of landscape painting). At this level, students develop research skills, learn to formulate informed historical readings of art objects and learn to articulate their findings verbally and in research papers.
Following are some of the courses offered:
- African Art
- African-American Art
- Art of the Baroque Era
A Tale of Four Cities: Urban Culture in Baltimore, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia - City, Suburb & Countryside: Realism and Impressionism
- Did New York Steal the Idea of Modern Art: Contemporary Art 1945 - Present
- Greek Art
- History of Photography
- Made in America: Art for a Democracy
- Methodology and Historiography
- Michelangelo
- Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- The Quest for a Modern Art: European Art from 1880-1945
- Roman Art
- Women in Art
Internships
Internships are available on a regular basis for advanced students. Please contact the Department for additional information.
Faculty
Letty BonnellAffiliate Assistant
Director of visual resources
B.F.A., University of Oklahoma
M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
Areas of Interest: African art, African-American art and contemporary art
Janet A. Headley
Department Chair, Professor
Coordinator of the Art History Program
B.A., University of Delaware
M.A., Temple University
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century American & European art, history of architecture, public monuments
Maureen O'Brien
Assistant Professor
B.A., Williams College
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Areas of Interest: Medieval Art; Islamic Art
Barnaby Nygren
Assistant Professor
B.A., Harvard University
M.A., Courtauld Institute
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Northern and Italian Renaissance art, Baroque Art
Martha Taylor
Associate Professor
A.B., Bryn Mawr College
Ph.D., Stanford University
Area of Interest: Classical Greek and Roman Art
Placement
While art historians often seek museum, gallery or academic careers, students also pursue careers in journalism, conservation and restoration, archaeology and library studies. Students have combined their interest in art history with majors in business, natural and social sciences, communication, law and medicine. Graduates have held positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Maryland Art Place, the Maryland Historical Society, Pace Gallery in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kreeger Museum and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., the Hudson River Museum and at Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses.
Course Sequence
1st year
(Note: semesters may be interchanged)
Survey of Art: Paleolithic to Gothic
Survey of Art: Renaissance to Modern
Core courses (6)
General electives (2)
2nd year
Non-Western Art
Art History courses (2)
Core courses (6)
General electives (2)
3rd year
Art History courses (3)
Basic Photography or
Two-Dimensional Design
Core courses (4)
General electives (2)
4th year
Art History courses (3)
Senior project or an additional
Art History course
Core course
General elective (5)
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