8.01 Medieval, Early Modern and Modern Art History

A [2]. Bachelor Degree Programme in Art History (Version 2011)

Orientation Period

BM 1 Introductory Course Art History

• 080117 VO STEOP: General Introduction

BM 2 Introduction to Art History I

• 080063 VO STEOP: Introduction to Iconography

BM 3 Introduction to Art History II

• 080020 VO STEOP: Introduction to the Terminology and Morphology of Architecture

Study Period

BM 4 Medieval Age I (from Late Antiquity through the Romanesque Period)

BM 5 Medieval Age II (Gothic and Late Gothic Periods)

BM 6 Renaissance and Baroque Periods

• 080047 VO Renaissance and Baroque

BM 7 Modern and Contemporary Periods

BM 8 Case Study I

• 080022 PS Case Study: Images of Mythology at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• 080025 PS Case Study I: The Beginnings of Gothic Architecture and Its Reception in Central Europe
• 080030 PS Case Study I: Aesthetics of Simultaneity ca. 1913 - ca. 1960
• 080057 PS Case Study I: Byzantine Icons
• 080067 PS Case Study I: Baroque Architecture in Vienna
• 080072 PS Case Study I: Re/Presence: History and Its Images in Modern and Contemporary Art
• 080073 PS Case Study: Introduction to Islamic Art

BM 9 Case Study II

• 080018 PS Case Study: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789). Le peintre turc / Le peintre de la vérité
• 080023 PS Case Study: The Late Gothic Winged Altarpiece and Its Architectural Context
• 080054 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Painting in India under the Mughals (16th-17th c.)
• 080058 PS Case Study II/III: Architecture of Acceleration. Otto Wagner and the Vienna Metropolitan Railway
• 080065 PS Case Study: Victorian Painting
• 080070 PS Case Study: The Furnishing of Church Interiors
• 080078 PS Case Study: Petrified Feminity. How Women and Feminity are Desplayed in Sculpture - Wie Frauen und Weiblichkeit im Medium der Skulptur dargestellt werden.
• 080081 PS Case Study: Canova and Thorvaldsen. 19th Century Sculpture in Rome (1815-71)
• 080134 PS Case Study II/III: Art Historical Contributions to Picture Theory

BM 10 Case Study III

• 080018 PS Case Study: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789). Le peintre turc / Le peintre de la vérité
• 080023 PS Case Study: The Late Gothic Winged Altarpiece and Its Architectural Context
• 080054 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Painting in India under the Mughals (16th-17th c.)
• 080058 PS Case Study II/III: Architecture of Acceleration. Otto Wagner and the Vienna Metropolitan Railway
• 080065 PS Case Study: Victorian Painting
• 080070 PS Case Study: The Furnishing of Church Interiors
• 080078 PS Case Study: Petrified Feminity. How Women and Feminity are Desplayed in Sculpture - Wie Frauen und Weiblichkeit im Medium der Skulptur dargestellt werden.
• 080081 PS Case Study: Canova and Thorvaldsen. 19th Century Sculpture in Rome (1815-71)
• 080134 PS Case Study II/III: Art Historical Contributions to Picture Theory

BM 11 Special Topics A

• 080031 VO Mosaic - A Cultural Technique in Context
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)

BM 12 Special Topics B

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition
• 080042 UE The Byzantine Iconographical Program

BM 13 Methods/Theories in Art History

• 080028 VO The History of Art Literature

BM 14 Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080034 UE Views of Rooms, Interior Decoration and the History of Furniture

BM 15 Individual Specialisation

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition
• 080031 VO Mosaic - A Cultural Technique in Context
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080062 UE The Scientist's Monuments in the Arcaded Courtyard of the University Building in Vienna II
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)
• 080089 VO Kings and the Emperors as Constructors. - Architecture as Instrument of Power and Representation in Austria in 13th Century

Final Stage

BM 16 Art in Vienna

• 080007 EX Art in Vienna: The Funerary Monuments and Cenotaphs at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof
• 080032 EX Art in Vienna - The so-called "Museumsquartier" in Vienna as a Complex Group of Buildings with the Focus Leopold-Museum
• 080044 EX Art in Vienna: Memorials of Contemporary History in Vienna
• 080050 EX [ en ] Art in Vienna: Objects of Islamic Art in Vienna’s collections
• 080102 EX Art in Vienna

BM 17 Seminar and Bachelor's Project I

• 080008 SE Seminar: The Total Work of Art in Baroque
• 080027 SE Seminar: Myth. Meaning and Function of Ancient Myth in a Christian Culture
• 080038 SE Seminar: Byzantine Art in the Time of Palaiologos-Dynasty
• 080039 SE Seminar: Religious Women and their Art
• 080043 SE Seminar: Religion and Visual Art in Early Modern Europe: Interrelations, Transfers and Contrasts - Wechselbeziehungen - Transfers - Differenzen
• 080051 SE [ en ] Seminar: Old Masters in Vienna: - Collectors, Collections, Collecting Cultures from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm to Antoine Count Seilern
• 080055 SE Seminar: Style and Modernity. Art and Architecture in the 20th Century
• 080068 SE Seminar: "Does Form Follow Function?" On the Principles of Late Antique and Byzantine Architecture
• 080071 SE Still Life in Far Eastern Art
• 080075 SE Seminar: Early Islamic Architectural Decor between Late Antique and Early Medieval Art
• 080080 SE Seminar: Image - Stone - Text. Sacred Architecture in Medieval Vienna
• 080083 SE Seminar: Marcel Duchamp
• 080085 SE Seminar: Environmental Art: International Positions, 1960s to Contemporary
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Drawings of the 16th and 17th Century
• 080094 SE Seminar: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts in the Sixteenth Century
• 080097 SE Seminar: The Pantheon-Idea
• 080098 SE Seminar: Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in France
• 080099 SE Seminar: From the Psychology of Art to Cognitive Research in Art History
• 080159 SE Seminar: Measure and Law be praised! The Classicism in the Architecture 1500-1900

BM 18 Seminar and Bachelor's Project II

• 080008 SE Seminar: The Total Work of Art in Baroque
• 080027 SE Seminar: Myth. Meaning and Function of Ancient Myth in a Christian Culture
• 080038 SE Seminar: Byzantine Art in the Time of Palaiologos-Dynasty
• 080039 SE Seminar: Religious Women and their Art
• 080043 SE Seminar: Religion and Visual Art in Early Modern Europe: Interrelations, Transfers and Contrasts - Wechselbeziehungen - Transfers - Differenzen
• 080051 SE [ en ] Seminar: Old Masters in Vienna: - Collectors, Collections, Collecting Cultures from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm to Antoine Count Seilern
• 080055 SE Seminar: Style and Modernity. Art and Architecture in the 20th Century
• 080068 SE Seminar: "Does Form Follow Function?" On the Principles of Late Antique and Byzantine Architecture
• 080071 SE Still Life in Far Eastern Art
• 080075 SE Seminar: Early Islamic Architectural Decor between Late Antique and Early Medieval Art
• 080080 SE Seminar: Image - Stone - Text. Sacred Architecture in Medieval Vienna
• 080083 SE Seminar: Marcel Duchamp
• 080085 SE Seminar: Environmental Art: International Positions, 1960s to Contemporary
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Drawings of the 16th and 17th Century
• 080094 SE Seminar: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts in the Sixteenth Century
• 080097 SE Seminar: The Pantheon-Idea
• 080098 SE Seminar: Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in France
• 080099 SE Seminar: From the Psychology of Art to Cognitive Research in Art History
• 080159 SE Seminar: Measure and Law be praised! The Classicism in the Architecture 1500-1900

A [1]. Bachelor Degree Programme in Art History (Version 2008)

1. Orientation Period

M 1: Introductory Course Art History

• 080117 VO STEOP: General Introduction

M 2 - M 3: Introduction to Art History

• 080020 VO STEOP: Introduction to the Terminology and Morphology of Architecture
• 080063 VO STEOP: Introduction to Iconography

2. Art Periods

M 4: Medieval Age I (from Late Antiquity through the Romanesque Period)

M 5: Medieval Age II (Gothic and Late Gothic Periods)

M 6: Renaissance and Baroque Periods

• 080047 VO Renaissance and Baroque

M 7: Modern and Contemporary Periods

3. Case Studies

M 8: Case Study I

• 080022 PS Case Study: Images of Mythology at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• 080025 PS Case Study I: The Beginnings of Gothic Architecture and Its Reception in Central Europe
• 080030 PS Case Study I: Aesthetics of Simultaneity ca. 1913 - ca. 1960
• 080057 PS Case Study I: Byzantine Icons
• 080067 PS Case Study I: Baroque Architecture in Vienna
• 080072 PS Case Study I: Re/Presence: History and Its Images in Modern and Contemporary Art
• 080073 PS Case Study: Introduction to Islamic Art

M 9 - M 10: Case Study II/III

• 080018 PS Case Study: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789). Le peintre turc / Le peintre de la vérité
• 080023 PS Case Study: The Late Gothic Winged Altarpiece and Its Architectural Context
• 080054 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Painting in India under the Mughals (16th-17th c.)
• 080058 PS Case Study II/III: Architecture of Acceleration. Otto Wagner and the Vienna Metropolitan Railway
• 080065 PS Case Study: Victorian Painting
• 080070 PS Case Study: The Furnishing of Church Interiors
• 080078 PS Case Study: Petrified Feminity. How Women and Feminity are Desplayed in Sculpture - Wie Frauen und Weiblichkeit im Medium der Skulptur dargestellt werden.
• 080081 PS Case Study: Canova and Thorvaldsen. 19th Century Sculpture in Rome (1815-71)
• 080134 PS Case Study II/III: Art Historical Contributions to Picture Theory

4. Special Topics

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition

M 11: Special Topics A

• 080031 VO Mosaic - A Cultural Technique in Context
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)

M 12: Special Topics B

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition
• 080042 UE The Byzantine Iconographical Program

5. Specialisation

M 13: Methods/Theories in Art History

• 080028 VO The History of Art Literature

M 14: Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080034 UE Views of Rooms, Interior Decoration and the History of Furniture

M 15: Individual Specialisation

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition
• 080031 VO Mosaic - A Cultural Technique in Context
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080062 UE The Scientist's Monuments in the Arcaded Courtyard of the University Building in Vienna II
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)
• 080089 VO Kings and the Emperors as Constructors. - Architecture as Instrument of Power and Representation in Austria in 13th Century

6. Final Stage

M 16: Art in Vienna

• 080007 EX Art in Vienna: The Funerary Monuments and Cenotaphs at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof
• 080032 EX Art in Vienna - The so-called "Museumsquartier" in Vienna as a Complex Group of Buildings with the Focus Leopold-Museum
• 080044 EX Art in Vienna: Memorials of Contemporary History in Vienna
• 080050 EX [ en ] Art in Vienna: Objects of Islamic Art in Vienna’s collections

M 17 - M 18: Seminar and Bachelor's Project

• 080008 SE Seminar: The Total Work of Art in Baroque
• 080027 SE Seminar: Myth. Meaning and Function of Ancient Myth in a Christian Culture
• 080038 SE Seminar: Byzantine Art in the Time of Palaiologos-Dynasty
• 080039 SE Seminar: Religious Women and their Art
• 080043 SE Seminar: Religion and Visual Art in Early Modern Europe: Interrelations, Transfers and Contrasts - Wechselbeziehungen - Transfers - Differenzen
• 080051 SE [ en ] Seminar: Old Masters in Vienna: - Collectors, Collections, Collecting Cultures from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm to Antoine Count Seilern
• 080055 SE Seminar: Style and Modernity. Art and Architecture in the 20th Century
• 080068 SE Seminar: "Does Form Follow Function?" On the Principles of Late Antique and Byzantine Architecture
• 080071 SE Still Life in Far Eastern Art
• 080075 SE Seminar: Early Islamic Architectural Decor between Late Antique and Early Medieval Art
• 080080 SE Seminar: Image - Stone - Text. Sacred Architecture in Medieval Vienna
• 080083 SE Seminar: Marcel Duchamp
• 080085 SE Seminar: Environmental Art: International Positions, 1960s to Contemporary
• 080086 SE Seminar: Applied Art. Vienna's Municipal Housing After World War II
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Drawings of the 16th and 17th Century
• 080094 SE Seminar: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts in the Sixteenth Century
• 080097 SE Seminar: The Pantheon-Idea
• 080098 SE Seminar: Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in France
• 080099 SE Seminar: From the Psychology of Art to Cognitive Research in Art History
• 080159 SE Seminar: Measure and Law be praised! The Classicism in the Architecture 1500-1900

B. Master Degree Programme in Art History

M 1: Specialisation I

• 080008 SE Seminar: The Total Work of Art in Baroque
• 080027 SE Seminar: Myth. Meaning and Function of Ancient Myth in a Christian Culture
• 080038 SE Seminar: Byzantine Art in the Time of Palaiologos-Dynasty
• 080039 SE Seminar: Religious Women and their Art
• 080043 SE Seminar: Religion and Visual Art in Early Modern Europe: Interrelations, Transfers and Contrasts - Wechselbeziehungen - Transfers - Differenzen
• 080051 SE [ en ] Seminar: Old Masters in Vienna: - Collectors, Collections, Collecting Cultures from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm to Antoine Count Seilern
• 080055 SE Seminar: Style and Modernity. Art and Architecture in the 20th Century
• 080068 SE Seminar: "Does Form Follow Function?" On the Principles of Late Antique and Byzantine Architecture
• 080071 SE Still Life in Far Eastern Art
• 080075 SE Seminar: Early Islamic Architectural Decor between Late Antique and Early Medieval Art
• 080080 SE Seminar: Image - Stone - Text. Sacred Architecture in Medieval Vienna
• 080083 SE Seminar: Marcel Duchamp
• 080085 SE Seminar: Environmental Art: International Positions, 1960s to Contemporary
• 080086 SE Seminar: Applied Art. Vienna's Municipal Housing After World War II
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Drawings of the 16th and 17th Century
• 080094 SE Seminar: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts in the Sixteenth Century
• 080097 SE Seminar: The Pantheon-Idea
• 080098 SE Seminar: Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in France
• 080099 SE Seminar: From the Psychology of Art to Cognitive Research in Art History
• 080159 SE Seminar: Measure and Law be praised! The Classicism in the Architecture 1500-1900

M 2: Specialisation II

• 080008 SE Seminar: The Total Work of Art in Baroque
• 080027 SE Seminar: Myth. Meaning and Function of Ancient Myth in a Christian Culture
• 080038 SE Seminar: Byzantine Art in the Time of Palaiologos-Dynasty
• 080039 SE Seminar: Religious Women and their Art
• 080043 SE Seminar: Religion and Visual Art in Early Modern Europe: Interrelations, Transfers and Contrasts - Wechselbeziehungen - Transfers - Differenzen
• 080051 SE [ en ] Seminar: Old Masters in Vienna: - Collectors, Collections, Collecting Cultures from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm to Antoine Count Seilern
• 080055 SE Seminar: Style and Modernity. Art and Architecture in the 20th Century
• 080068 SE Seminar: "Does Form Follow Function?" On the Principles of Late Antique and Byzantine Architecture
• 080071 SE Still Life in Far Eastern Art
• 080075 SE Seminar: Early Islamic Architectural Decor between Late Antique and Early Medieval Art
• 080080 SE Seminar: Image - Stone - Text. Sacred Architecture in Medieval Vienna
• 080083 SE Seminar: Marcel Duchamp
• 080085 SE Seminar: Environmental Art: International Positions, 1960s to Contemporary
• 080086 SE Seminar: Applied Art. Vienna's Municipal Housing After World War II
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Drawings of the 16th and 17th Century
• 080094 SE Seminar: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts in the Sixteenth Century
• 080097 SE Seminar: The Pantheon-Idea
• 080098 SE Seminar: Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in France
• 080099 SE Seminar: From the Psychology of Art to Cognitive Research in Art History
• 080159 SE Seminar: Measure and Law be praised! The Classicism in the Architecture 1500-1900

M 3: Excursion within Austria

• 080029 EX Excursion: Lower Austria

M 4: Excursion Abroad

• 080037 EX Excursion: Iran
• 080079 EX Excursion: Renaissance and Baroque in the Emilia Romagna: Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Piacenza - Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Piacenza

M 5: Master-Preparation-Tool

• 080035 SE Research Seminar
• 080036 SE Research Seminar
• 080040 SE Research Seminar
• 080045 SE Research Seminar
• 080048 SE Research Seminar
• 080049 SE Research Seminar
• 080052 SE Research Seminar
• 080053 SE Research Seminar
• 080056 SE Research Seminar
• 080059 SE Research Seminar
• 080064 SE Research Seminar
• 080066 SE Research Seminar
• 080076 SE Research Seminar
• 080082 SE Research Seminar
• 080084 SE Research Seminar
• 080095 SE Research Seminar
• 080100 SE Research Seminar

M 6: Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080034 UE Views of Rooms, Interior Decoration and the History of Furniture
• 080046 UE Working with Archives. A Practical Introduction

M 7: Method/Theory

• 080061 UE Introduction to Empirical Research Methods for Art History
• 080106 UE Theories of Photography and their Critical Reception

M 8: Specialisation Art History

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080062 UE The Scientist's Monuments in the Arcaded Courtyard of the University Building in Vienna II
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)
• 080087 UE In Progress. Works in the MUMOK Collection
• 080089 VO Kings and the Emperors as Constructors. - Architecture as Instrument of Power and Representation in Austria in 13th Century
• 080106 UE Theories of Photography and their Critical Reception

M 9: Individual Focus

• 080017 VO The Taj Mahal in the Indian and Islamic Architectural Tradition
• 080031 VO Mosaic - A Cultural Technique in Context
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080062 UE The Scientist's Monuments in the Arcaded Courtyard of the University Building in Vienna II
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)
• 080087 UE In Progress. Works in the MUMOK Collection
• 080089 VO Kings and the Emperors as Constructors. - Architecture as Instrument of Power and Representation in Austria in 13th Century

M 11: Research Seminar

• 080035 SE Research Seminar
• 080036 SE Research Seminar
• 080040 SE Research Seminar
• 080045 SE Research Seminar
• 080048 SE Research Seminar
• 080049 SE Research Seminar
• 080052 SE Research Seminar
• 080053 SE Research Seminar
• 080056 SE Research Seminar
• 080059 SE Research Seminar
• 080064 SE Research Seminar
• 080066 SE Research Seminar
• 080076 SE Research Seminar
• 080082 SE Research Seminar
• 080084 SE Research Seminar
• 080095 SE Research Seminar
• 080100 SE Research Seminar

Information on Complementary Courses from Other Departments

• 060046 KU Describing and identifying numismatic items of medieval and modern times
• 060055 KU Ceremonies, Regalia and Authority. Baroque coronation in contemporary sources
• 140400 VO [ en ] Cultural Exchange and Mobility in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands

C. Complementary Study Programme (Minor) in Art History

1. Introduction to Art History

• 080020 VO STEOP: Introduction to the Terminology and Morphology of Architecture
• 080063 VO STEOP: Introduction to Iconography

2. Periods in Art History I, II, III or IV

• 080047 VO Renaissance and Baroque

3. Periods in Art History I, II, III or IV

• 080047 VO Renaissance and Baroque

Disciplinary Focus

• 080031 VO Mosaic - A Cultural Technique in Context
• 080041 VO Giotto and the Consequences
• 080074 VO Copy, Quote, Adaption, Variation... Strategies of Transformation in Post/Modern Art and Architecture - Strategien des Anverwandelns in der Kunst und Architektur der Post/Moderne (nst.K.)

D. Doktoratsstudium NEU

• 410003 SE Exploration and interpretation in the historical-social and the historical-cultural sciences. - Interdisciplinary seminar for doctoral canidates