A. Bachelor Degree Programme in Art History

1. Orientation Period

M 1: Introductory Course Art History

• 080117 VO Propädeutikum Kunstgeschichte

M 2 - M 3: Introduction to Art History

• 080104 VO Introduction into the Art History
• 080054 VO The Semantic Messages of Material in European Art - A Survey from the Middle Ages up to the Present Production. As a main Point 19th and 20th Century

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

• 080032 VO Renaissance and Baroque

M 7: Modern and Contemporary Periods

3. Case Studies

M 8: Case Study I

• 080138 PS Franciscan Art Patronage in Italian Gothic Art
• 080056 PS The Visual Culture of pre-Reformation England and the Early Tudor patronage - Die englische Kunst des Spätmittelalters und die Patronage der frühen Tudor-Könige (m./n.K.)
• 080016 PS Byzantine Constructions of Heaven and Hell
• 080134 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Art and Space
• 080040 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Palais Liechtenstein
• 080039 PS The worker and modern art
• 080232 PS Art and Artist in Bengal (India) during the colonial age - Indien-Rezeption in der westlichen Kunst des 19., 20. Jh. und der Gegenwart

M 9 - M 10: Case Study II/III

• 080144 PS The Pope as Patron: From Alexander IV to Boniface VIII (1254-1303) - von Alexander IV. bis Bonifaz VIII., 1254-1303 (m.K.)
• 080210 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Art Nouveau Architecture in Vienna
• 080055 PS Leonardo da Vinci
• 080025 PS The world tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este 1892/93 - Impressions in photography and portrait
• 080052 PS Spanish Painting from El Greco to Goya
• 080042 PS Leiden Masters: From Lievens to Steen
• 080043 PS Proseminar 3/4
• 080058 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Metamorphosen. Prag - Wien - Budapest im 15. Jahrhundert (m./ö.K.)

4. Special Topics

M 11: Special Topics A

• 080044 VO European Painting of the 20th century III
• 080022 UE [ de en ] Late Gothic Architecture in Vienna. From Rudolph IV to Frederick III
• 080028 VO The Language of Clothing and Fashion since the late Middle Age
• 080030 UE The Change of Media in the Late Middle Age. From Illumination to Illustrated Printings
• 080035 VO Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
• 080068 VO Architecture and Cloister
• 080049 VO Giovan Lorenzo Bernini and Roman Baroque Sculpture

M 12: Special Topics B

• 080012 VO The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony: Esthetics, Utensils, Ritual
• 080027 UE Introduction into the Buddhist Art of South and Central Asia
• 080019 UE Basic Principles of Byzantine Art

5. Specialisation

M 13: Methods/Theories in Art History

• 080135 VO Picture theory I: Topological aspects of pictorial representation
• 080084 UE The Art of the 19th Century - History of Research and Methodology
• 070339 VO Visuelle Kulturen, Medien und Bildtheorien mit einer historischen Perspektive

M 14: Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080015 VO Grundsätze der Denkmalpflege in Theorie, Geschichte und Praxis
• 080110 UE Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)

M 15: Individual Specialisation

• 080044 VO European Painting of the 20th century III
• 080022 UE [ de en ] Late Gothic Architecture in Vienna. From Rudolph IV to Frederick III
• 080198 AG Work Group: Postcolonial theories, art and visual media in 19th + 20th cent. India and Tibet - im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
• 080027 UE Introduction into the Buddhist Art of South and Central Asia
• 080028 VO The Language of Clothing and Fashion since the late Middle Age
• 080030 UE The Change of Media in the Late Middle Age. From Illumination to Illustrated Printings
• 080035 VO Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
• 080068 VO Architecture and Cloister
• 080049 VO Giovan Lorenzo Bernini and Roman Baroque Sculpture
• 080087 UE Scientific Writing: cause for frustration or rewarding experience? - A writers' workshop for art historians

6. Final Stage

M 16: Art in Vienna

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

• 080046 SE Seminar: Modern and contemporary architecture
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Baroque Painting
• 080159 SE Frank Lloyd Wright
• 080154 SE The Female Body in the Art of the 20th Century
• 080103 SE Seminar: Problems of Town Planning in the Early Modern Age
• 080051 SE Seminar: Buddhist Narrative Art
• 080029 SE Seminar: The (Self-)Representation of the Habsburgs. Painting, Memoria, Coins and Medals
• 080031 SE Seminar:
• 080036 SE The Titles of Paintings (n./nst.K.)
• 080050 SE Seminar: Self-Portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque Periods
• 080098 SE Seminar: Late Romanesque Architecture in the Imperial Provinces of Italy
• 080047 SE Representative Architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries
• 080004 SE Seminar: Epiros: A historical Landscape in two States
• 080038 SE Seminar: The City in Images