Disciplines and areas of study
Art History
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Art History explores art forms in their historical and cultural context. This includes a wide range of visual imagery and the changing styles and techniques which go into their creation. Studying art history involves skills in visual analysis and of the purpose and use of selected works of art and artists. Students can draw on a rich library of resources of over 100,000 slides of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, mosaics and buildings as they study Western art from antiquity, through the medieval and baroque periods, to contemporary times from the United States and Australia. The study of art history at La Trobe also takes advantage of Melbourne’s rich artistic and cultural resources by encouraging visits to museums, galleries and architectural sites to facilitate the study of original material.
Principal areas of specialisation
Principal areas of specialisation are early Christian and medieval art, architecture and iconography;
Renaissance and baroque Europe; colonial US and Australian Painting; modernist and post-modernist art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Coursework programs
- Graduate Diploma in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Graduate Certificate in Humanities and Social Sciences