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feed2009-2010 Events

  • "Burning the Devil & Dusting the Madonna: Image Efficacy in the Renaissance"

    Dr. Fredrika Jacobs
    4:00 - 6:00 pm
    The Grace Street Theater

    Read More Wednesday September 30th
  • Visiting Lecture Series in Art History

    Dr. Patricia Simons
    4:00 - 6:00 pm
    The Grace Street Theater

    Read More Monday, October 19th
  • Department Hosts Fulbright Scholar in Residence, 2009-10

    Dr. Naresh Man Bajracharya

    Read More
  • Islamic Art Symposium
    "Color in Islamic Art and Culture"

    Cordorba, Spain

    Read More November 2-4
  • 17th Annual Symposium on Architectural History and the Decorative Arts
    "Traditions I"

    9:00 am - 3:30 pm
    Virginia Historical Society
    428 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA

    Read More Friday, November 13th
  • Faculty Lecture Series

    Dr. Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair in American Art
    4:00 - 6:00 pm
    The Grace Street Theater

    Read More Thursday, April 8th

The VCUarts Department of Art History is engaged in establishing a global approach to the visual arts. Its faculty and students recognize the need to study the permeability of geographic, temporal and theoretical boundaries, which in the past separated and defined the world. 

     The Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs with various tracks from which students  

     select their programs of study. The undergraduate program, leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree,      

     offers Architectural History and Art Historical Studies tracks. The graduate program leading to the  

     Master of Arts degree offers Architectural History, Art Historical Studies, and Museum Studies tracks.     

     The graduate program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree offers Art Historical Studies and 

     Curatorial tracks.

 

     The ten full-time faculty members in the Department of Art History conduct research and offer courses   

     in European art since the Renaissance, art and architecture of the Americas, modernism and

     postmodernism, South Asian and Himalayan art, African and African-Diaspora art, and the history and

     theory of museum practice. Graduate students conduct their own research under the direction of faculty

     in the above areas.

 

    The Department is located on VCU’s Monroe Park Campus in Richmond, the state capital of Virginia.  

    Richmond offers a host of museums and historic sites—including the renowned Virginia Museum of Fine

    Art with its encyclopedic collections—as well as easy access to Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian

    Institution’s many specialized collections, archives, and libraries.

 

 





Address

Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
Department of Art History
VCU School of the Arts
922 W. Franklin
P.O. Box 843046
Richmond, VA 23284-3046

Contact

Email: arthistory@vcu.edu
Phone: 804.828.2784
Fax: 804.828.7468

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Last Updated: July 6, 2009