History of Art
Welcome to the History of Art Department at the University of Warwick
The Department of History of Art is a friendly and dynamic department that offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the history of art.
The Department has an international reputation, which was recognised by having 70% of its research output graded 4* or 3* in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. Each member of staff is an active researcher, and regularly publishes books and articles with leading presses and in international journals. Our teaching was graded as Excellent by the Quality Assurance Agency.
The Department has an international reputation, which was recognised by having 70% of its research output graded 4* or 3* in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. Each member of staff is an active researcher, and regularly publishes books and articles with leading presses and in international journals. Our teaching was graded as Excellent by the Quality Assurance Agency.
We offer an undergraduate degree that encourages students to design their own course, and draws to a focus in the final year, when they can opt either to follow a course in modern art, or to spend the Autumn term resident in Venice. This is an opportunity unique to Warwick.
We also offer research-based teaching in a wide range of subjects from medieval architecture and Baroque art to theories of visual percpetion and the history of exhibitions.
We also offer research-based teaching in a wide range of subjects from medieval architecture and Baroque art to theories of visual percpetion and the history of exhibitions.
At Masters level we capitalise on the unique research expertise of our teaching staff, and our presence in Venice, to offer streams that focus on the Venetian Renaissance and its legacies, and on British art and architecture.
There are eight full-time teaching staff and a visual resources curator.
Professor Michael Hatt
Chair of Department
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Latest News and Events
MA student Matteo Carpiniello has won a 25.000 € "Master and Back–Alta Formazione 2012" fellowship from the Sardinia Region, Italy. With this award, the Sardinia Region acknowledges the high quality of Matteo's MA research project and of our MA Degree in Art History.
First year PhD student Carlo Avilio has won the AAH's 2013 John Fleming Travel Award for his work on Jusepe de Ribera and his time in Italy. He will receive the prize at the University of Reading during the 2013 AAH Conference. The Department of Art History congratulates Carlo for this award.
Dr Joanne Anderson has published in Mary Magdalene: Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Brill, 2012). Her article entitled, ‘Mary Magdalen and her Dear Sister,’ examines an unusual iconographic episode in a church near Bolzano (N. Italy)
Third year student Rachel Guthrie has been shortlisted for the Guardian's Student Critic of the Year Award. The department congratulates Rachel and roots for her with great enthusiasm. You can read Rachel's blog here.
Postgraduate Scholarships competition for entry in October 2013 now open
