• The research and teaching specialties of the art history faculty include art and medicine in the early modern period, Northern and Italian Renaissance art, 17th-century Dutch painting, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art, 19th- and 20th-century European art, South Asian art and Architecture, American and Latin American art and architecture
  • Studies in the history of architecture are offered in association with the faculty of the School of Architecture (see program description under “History of Architecture” in this section of the catalog).
  • Cooperative programs with the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and other divisions of the University allow students to take courses in studio art, and public communications.
  • Students who major in one of the department’s disciplines are strongly encouraged to take a foreign language and to study abroad.