Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History of Art

Bachelor’s programme in History of Art and Architecture (635 [3] - Version 2018)

Introductory and Orientation Period (15 ECTS)

Orientation Event

• 080095 OV ( OV ) Orientation Event for New Students of the Bachelor’s Programme in History of Art and Architecture

PM 1 Introduction to History of Art: Selected Studies (5 ECTS)

• EXAM Modul exam: STEOP Introduction to Art History: Selected Studies
• 080117 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to Art History: Selected Studies

PM 2 Introduction to Iconography (5 ECTS)

• EXAM Modul exam: STEOP Introduction to Iconography
• 080002 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to Iconography

PM 3 Introduction to Architectural Terminology and Morphology (5 ECTS)

• EXAM Modul exam: Introduction to Architectural Terminology and Morphology
• 080025 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to the Terminology and Morphology of Architecture

History of Art Survey (20 ECTS)

PM 4 History of Art Survey I (5 ECTS)

PM 5 History of Art Survey II (5 ECTS)

PM 6 History of Art Survey III (5 ECTS)

PM 7 History of Art Survey IV (5 ECTS)

• 080007 VO Art History Survey IV

Case Studies (20 ECTS)

PM 8 Case Study I (10 ECTS)

• 080003 PS Case Study I: Art and Power. Visual Rhetoric and Representation of Power in Byzantium
• 080015 PS [ en ] Case Study I: Introduction to the Visual Cultures of the Arabic Medieval World - Methods and Case Studies
• 080026 PS Case Study I: Art at the Time of the First Emperor of China
• 080049 PS Case Study I: The Art of Diego Velázquez
• 080066 PS Case Study I: Scenes of Manners or Pictures of Meaning? Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• 080080 PS [ en ] Case Study I: Before and After Giotto: Tradition and Innovation in Italian Art (c. 1250-1400)
• 080083 PS Case Study I: Images and Sites of Modernity
• 080115 PS Case Study I: Flemish Manuscript Illumination

PM 9 Case Study II (5 ECTS)

• 080013 PS Case Study II/III: Aesthetic Emotions
• 080014 PS Case Study II/III: Continuity, Recourse, and Innovation in the Architecture of Ottoman Istanbul
• 080028 PS Case Study II/III: In Search of the Ukrainian in Art
• 080035 PS Case Study II/III: Queerness in Early Modern Art
• 080043 PS Case Study II/III: Axé - Art and Spirituality in the Black Atlantic
• 080059 PS Case Study II/III: Exhibition History of the 20th Century in a Global Context
• 080061 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Introduction to Art Conservation: Case Studies of Paintings and Paper Objects
• 080062 PS Case Study II/III: Depicting China: 18th-Century Perceptions
• 080098 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Art, Medicine, and the Body in Renaissance and Baroque Europe
• 080113 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Mughal Book Painting in the 16th-17th Centuries

PM 10 Case Study III (5 ECTS)

• 080013 PS Case Study II/III: Aesthetic Emotions
• 080014 PS Case Study II/III: Continuity, Recourse, and Innovation in the Architecture of Ottoman Istanbul
• 080028 PS Case Study II/III: In Search of the Ukrainian in Art
• 080035 PS Case Study II/III: Queerness in Early Modern Art
• 080043 PS Case Study II/III: Axé - Art and Spirituality in the Black Atlantic
• 080059 PS Case Study II/III: Exhibition History of the 20th Century in a Global Context
• 080061 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Introduction to Art Conservation: Case Studies of Paintings and Paper Objects
• 080062 PS Case Study II/III: Depicting China: 18th-Century Perceptions
• 080098 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Art, Medicine, and the Body in Renaissance and Baroque Europe
• 080113 PS [ en ] Case Study II/III: Mughal Book Painting in the 16th-17th Centuries

Special Topics (30 ECTS)

PM 11 Special Topics (30 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080005 VO Contact Zones of Culture: The Serbian Medieval Empire and the Byzantine World
• 080012 UE [ en ] Course: Uncovering Contested Heritage in Viennese Museums
• 080017 VO The Reception of Raphael in Europe Between the 17th and Early 19th Centuries
• 080050 UE Course: Describing Works of Art
• 080063 UE Course: Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Networkers and Rivals
• 080097 UE Course: Witches, Comets, Blood Rain, and More: Prodigies in Early Modern Prints

Emphasis (10 ECTS)

PM 12 Methods in History of Art and Architecture / Art Theory (5 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080027 UE Course: Imagining Futures in Art and Heritage Studies
• 080031 UE Course: Does Eastern European Art Exist? Paradigms and Epistemes
• 080033 UE Course: Reading Medieval Architecture - Forms and Methods
• 080052 UE Course: Art History and Gender Studies: History - Methodologies - Perspectives

PM 13 Practical Applications of History of Art and Architecture (5 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080004 UE Course at mumok: Between Collection and Public - Knowledge Management, Digital Mediation, and Participatory Strategies in the Museum
• 080050 UE Course: Describing Works of Art
• 080086 UE Course: History of the Europian Art Market
• 080094 UE Course: Photography and Sculpture: An Exhibition in Development
• 080102 UE Course: Printmaking Techniques - Practising with Originals

Final Phase (25 ECTS)

PM 14 Art in Vienna (5 ECTS)

• 080021 EX Viennese Art: Baroque Architecture
• 080039 EX Viennese Art: Unusual Museums
• 080040 EX [ en ] Viennese Art: Making Medieval Art: Techniques, Materials, and Meaning in Vienna's Collections
• 080047 EX Viennese Art: Vienna's Ringstrasse (1857-2025) - Planning, Buildings and Squares, Changes
• 080051 EX [ en ] Viennese Art: Vienna's Art Scene: Exhibitions and Curatorial Practice Today
• 080109 EX Viennese Art: Strategies and Practices of Feminist Collecting

PM 15 Seminar I (10 ECTS)

• 080006 SE Script, Image and Ornament: Late Antiquity and Byzantine Manuscripts
• 080008 SE Visual Humour: Caricature and Irony in 19th-Century Graphic Art
• 080018 SE Female Artists of the Baroque Period
• 080022 SE Soft Sculptures
• 080024 SE The Column as Bearer of Meaning
• 080029 SE Exhibiting People in the 19th Century: Places, Objects, Images
• 080042 SE Filippo Brunelleschi
• 080048 SE Sacred Architecture of the 18th Century in Central Europe
• 080056 SE Avignon and Its Aftermath - Artistic Traditions and Innovations in the Late Middle Ages
• 080060 SE Maria Theresa and the Arts of China
• 080065 SE Modern Architecture and Psychiatry - On the Architectural History of Psychiatric Hospitals and Sanatoriums in Central Europe around 1900
• 080067 SE Baroque and Modernism
• 080093 SE Becoming Cy Twombly: The Early Years from 1946 to 1957
• 080099 SE Landscape and Nature in the Visual Arts of West Asia
• 080103 SE Max Imdahl's "Ikonik". Art History, Contemporary Art, and Architecture in Western Germany, 1946-1988
• 080104 SE Themes and Concepts of Persian-Islamic Architecture: The Great Mosque of Isfahan

PM 16 Seminar II (10 ECTS)

• 080006 SE Script, Image and Ornament: Late Antiquity and Byzantine Manuscripts
• 080008 SE Visual Humour: Caricature and Irony in 19th-Century Graphic Art
• 080018 SE Female Artists of the Baroque Period
• 080022 SE Soft Sculptures
• 080024 SE The Column as Bearer of Meaning
• 080029 SE Exhibiting People in the 19th Century: Places, Objects, Images
• 080042 SE Filippo Brunelleschi
• 080048 SE Sacred Architecture of the 18th Century in Central Europe
• 080056 SE Avignon and Its Aftermath - Artistic Traditions and Innovations in the Late Middle Ages
• 080060 SE Maria Theresa and the Arts of China
• 080065 SE Modern Architecture and Psychiatry - On the Architectural History of Psychiatric Hospitals and Sanatoriums in Central Europe around 1900
• 080067 SE Baroque and Modernism
• 080093 SE Becoming Cy Twombly: The Early Years from 1946 to 1957
• 080099 SE Landscape and Nature in the Visual Arts of West Asia
• 080103 SE Max Imdahl's "Ikonik". Art History, Contemporary Art, and Architecture in Western Germany, 1946-1988
• 080104 SE Themes and Concepts of Persian-Islamic Architecture: The Great Mosque of Isfahan

Master’s programme in History of Art and Architecture (835)

M 1: Specialisation I (10 ECTS)

• 080006 SE Script, Image and Ornament: Late Antiquity and Byzantine Manuscripts
• 080008 SE Visual Humour: Caricature and Irony in 19th-Century Graphic Art
• 080018 SE Female Artists of the Baroque Period
• 080022 SE Soft Sculptures
• 080024 SE The Column as Bearer of Meaning
• 080029 SE Exhibiting People in the 19th Century: Places, Objects, Images
• 080042 SE Filippo Brunelleschi
• 080048 SE Sacred Architecture of the 18th Century in Central Europe
• 080056 SE Avignon and Its Aftermath - Artistic Traditions and Innovations in the Late Middle Ages
• 080060 SE Maria Theresa and the Arts of China
• 080065 SE Modern Architecture and Psychiatry - On the Architectural History of Psychiatric Hospitals and Sanatoriums in Central Europe around 1900
• 080067 SE Baroque and Modernism
• 080093 SE Becoming Cy Twombly: The Early Years from 1946 to 1957
• 080099 SE Landscape and Nature in the Visual Arts of West Asia
• 080103 SE Max Imdahl's "Ikonik". Art History, Contemporary Art, and Architecture in Western Germany, 1946-1988
• 080104 SE Themes and Concepts of Persian-Islamic Architecture: The Great Mosque of Isfahan

M 2: Specialisation II (10 ECTS)

• 080006 SE Script, Image and Ornament: Late Antiquity and Byzantine Manuscripts
• 080008 SE Visual Humour: Caricature and Irony in 19th-Century Graphic Art
• 080018 SE Female Artists of the Baroque Period
• 080022 SE Soft Sculptures
• 080024 SE The Column as Bearer of Meaning
• 080029 SE Exhibiting People in the 19th Century: Places, Objects, Images
• 080042 SE Filippo Brunelleschi
• 080048 SE Sacred Architecture of the 18th Century in Central Europe
• 080056 SE Avignon and Its Aftermath - Artistic Traditions and Innovations in the Late Middle Ages
• 080060 SE Maria Theresa and the Arts of China
• 080065 SE Modern Architecture and Psychiatry - On the Architectural History of Psychiatric Hospitals and Sanatoriums in Central Europe around 1900
• 080067 SE Baroque and Modernism
• 080093 SE Becoming Cy Twombly: The Early Years from 1946 to 1957
• 080099 SE Landscape and Nature in the Visual Arts of West Asia
• 080103 SE Max Imdahl's "Ikonik". Art History, Contemporary Art, and Architecture in Western Germany, 1946-1988
• 080104 SE Themes and Concepts of Persian-Islamic Architecture: The Great Mosque of Isfahan

M 3: Specialisation III (10 ECTS)

• 080006 SE Script, Image and Ornament: Late Antiquity and Byzantine Manuscripts
• 080008 SE Visual Humour: Caricature and Irony in 19th-Century Graphic Art
• 080018 SE Female Artists of the Baroque Period
• 080022 SE Soft Sculptures
• 080024 SE The Column as Bearer of Meaning
• 080029 SE Exhibiting People in the 19th Century: Places, Objects, Images
• 080042 SE Filippo Brunelleschi
• 080048 SE Sacred Architecture of the 18th Century in Central Europe
• 080056 SE Avignon and Its Aftermath - Artistic Traditions and Innovations in the Late Middle Ages
• 080060 SE Maria Theresa and the Arts of China
• 080065 SE Modern Architecture and Psychiatry - On the Architectural History of Psychiatric Hospitals and Sanatoriums in Central Europe around 1900
• 080067 SE Baroque and Modernism
• 080093 SE Becoming Cy Twombly: The Early Years from 1946 to 1957
• 080099 SE Landscape and Nature in the Visual Arts of West Asia
• 080103 SE Max Imdahl's "Ikonik". Art History, Contemporary Art, and Architecture in Western Germany, 1946-1988
• 080104 SE Themes and Concepts of Persian-Islamic Architecture: The Great Mosque of Isfahan

M 4: Field Trip: Austria in its Historical Context (5 ECTS)

• 080019 EX Field Trip: Monasteries in Austria: from Heiligenkreuz to Salzburg
• 080084 EX Field Trip: Venice Biennale 2026
• 080111 EX Field Trip: Graz and its Art Treasures

M 5: Field Trip: Beyond Austria

• 080045 EX Field Trip: Manifesta 16 Ruhr, Ruhr Area, Germany
• 080054 EX [ de en ] Field Trip: Ravenna-Venice
• 080058 EX Field Trip: Belgium

M 6: Preparation for the Master’s Thesis (5 ECTS)

• 080016 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080020 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080023 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080034 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080036 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080037 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080046 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080055 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080057 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080064 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080068 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080076 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080078 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080089 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080112 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080120 SE Thesis Seminar

M 7: Practical Applications of History of Art and Architecture (5 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080004 UE Course at mumok: Between Collection and Public - Knowledge Management, Digital Mediation, and Participatory Strategies in the Museum
• 080050 UE Course: Describing Works of Art
• 080086 UE Course: History of the Europian Art Market
• 080094 UE Course: Photography and Sculpture: An Exhibition in Development
• 080102 UE Course: Printmaking Techniques - Practising with Originals

M 8: Methods/ Theory (5 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080027 UE Course: Imagining Futures in Art and Heritage Studies
• 080031 UE Course: Does Eastern European Art Exist? Paradigms and Epistemes
• 080033 UE Course: Reading Medieval Architecture - Forms and Methods
• 080052 UE Course: Art History and Gender Studies: History - Methodologies - Perspectives

M 9: Emphasis: History of Art and Architecture (15 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080005 VO Contact Zones of Culture: The Serbian Medieval Empire and the Byzantine World
• 080012 UE [ en ] Course: Uncovering Contested Heritage in Viennese Museums
• 080017 VO The Reception of Raphael in Europe Between the 17th and Early 19th Centuries
• 080050 UE Course: Describing Works of Art
• 080063 UE Course: Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Networkers and Rivals
• 080097 UE Course: Witches, Comets, Blood Rain, and More: Prodigies in Early Modern Prints

M 10: Individual Focus (15 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080004 UE Course at mumok: Between Collection and Public - Knowledge Management, Digital Mediation, and Participatory Strategies in the Museum
• 080005 VO Contact Zones of Culture: The Serbian Medieval Empire and the Byzantine World
• 080012 UE [ en ] Course: Uncovering Contested Heritage in Viennese Museums
• 080017 VO The Reception of Raphael in Europe Between the 17th and Early 19th Centuries
• 080027 UE Course: Imagining Futures in Art and Heritage Studies
• 080031 UE Course: Does Eastern European Art Exist? Paradigms and Epistemes
• 080033 UE Course: Reading Medieval Architecture - Forms and Methods
• 080050 UE Course: Describing Works of Art
• 080052 UE Course: Art History and Gender Studies: History - Methodologies - Perspectives
• 080063 UE Course: Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Networkers and Rivals
• 080086 UE Course: History of the Europian Art Market
• 080094 UE Course: Photography and Sculpture: An Exhibition in Development
• 080097 UE Course: Witches, Comets, Blood Rain, and More: Prodigies in Early Modern Prints
• 080102 UE Course: Printmaking Techniques - Practising with Originals
• 110175 UE ( ON-SITE ) Optional Course - Histoire de l'art
• 110214 UE [ it ] Optional Course - Italienisch für die kunsthistorische Praxis (Anfänger*innen)
• 110215 UE [ it ] Optional Course - Italienisch für die kunsthistorische Praxis (Fortgeschrittene)

M 11: Master’s Thesis (5 ECTS)

• 080016 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080020 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080023 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080034 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080036 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080037 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080046 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080055 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080057 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080064 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080068 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080076 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080078 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080089 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080112 SE Thesis Seminar
• 080120 SE Thesis Seminar

Courses during the lecture-free period

• 080038 EX Viennese Art: Cultural Traces of the Cold War in Vienna
• 080044 UE Course: Erna Rosenstein
• 080081 UE Course: Displacing Caravaggio: Gender, Violence, and Actuality
• 080106 UE Course: How Images Narrate. Image Cycles in Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Early Printed Books

Recommended Lectures of other Departments

• 060016 SE Jewish object cultures
• 060030 KU Coins in a Museum: Building an Exhibition and Creating an Audio
• 060033 KU Phaleristics - the History of Military, Chivalric, Dynastic and Civil Orders, Medals and Decorations
• 060036 KU [ en ] The History of Coinage in the Papal States during the Renaissance - From Martin V to Benvenuto Cellini (15th-16th cent.)
• 090099 VO [ en ] Naxos from Late Antiquity to the Early Modernity: A Cultural History of an Aegean Island
• 090100 VO [ en ] Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
• 090106 VO Byzantium and the Islamic world
• 110175 UE ( ON-SITE ) Optional Course - Histoire de l'art
• 110214 UE [ it ] Optional Course - Italienisch für die kunsthistorische Praxis (Anfänger*innen)
• 110215 UE [ it ] Optional Course - Italienisch für die kunsthistorische Praxis (Fortgeschrittene)
• 142050 VO [ en ] Medicine and Science in Colonial South Asia
• 142052 PS Manuscripts, Prints, and Painted Scrolls - Sources for the Study of Tibetan Buddhism
• 142077 PS Nepal's Stolen Gods Return - Recent Controversies in the Restitution of Cultural Heritage from the Himalayas
• 142125 PS Sexuality and Femininity in Indian Esoteric Buddhism
• 142157 SE [ en ] Popular Hinduism: Material Religion in South Asia
• 142666 PS We Humans and Nature in Pre-Modern Hindu Traditions

Extension curriculum: History of Art and Architecture - Emphasis (087 [1] - Version 2018) - discontinued

EC I History of Art and Architecture I: Terminology, Objects, Methods (15 ECTS)

• 080002 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to Iconography
• 080025 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to the Terminology and Morphology of Architecture
• 080117 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to Art History: Selected Studies

Extension curriculum: History of Art and Architecture II: Specialisation (087 [2] - Version 2024)

EC II History of Art and Architecture II: Specialisation (15 ECTS)

• 080001 VO [ en ] Theorising Materiality - Materialising Theory
• 080005 VO Contact Zones of Culture: The Serbian Medieval Empire and the Byzantine World
• 080007 VO Art History Survey IV
• 080017 VO The Reception of Raphael in Europe Between the 17th and Early 19th Centuries