8.01 Medieval, Early Modern and Modern Art History

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

• 080054 VO The Semantic Messages of Material in European Art. - A Survey from the Middle Ages up to the Present Production
• 080084 VO Introduction to Iconography
• 080104 VO Einführung in das Fach Kunstgeschichte

2. Art Periods

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

• 080066 VO Art of the occident from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the High Medieval Period - Epochen der Kunstgeschichte: Mittelalter I (Spätantike bis Romanik)

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

M 6: Renaissance and Baroque Periods

M 7: Modern and Contemporary Periods

3. Case Studies

M 8: Case Study I

• 080053 PS Parisian manuscript illumination in the fourteenth century
• 080056 PS Westminster Abbey - Royal art patronage and monastic piety in Medieval England - im mittelalterlichen England (m.K.)
• 080064 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: "Easy shopping" - Architectural history of department stores
• 080134 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I
• 080138 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Simone Martini und die höfische Kunst im 14. Jahrhundert (m.K.)
• 080149 PS Proseminar 2: Temples and sculptures in medieval Orissa (7.-13. century)
• 080152 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Death and its visuality in Byzantium
• 080232 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: - Indien-Rezeption in der westlichen Kunst des 19., 20. Jh. und der Gegenwart (au./nst.K.)

M 9 - M 10: Case Study II/III

• 080017 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III
• 080024 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III:
• 080068 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Carolingian architecture
• 080095 PS Proseminar 3/4: Performance Art
• 080106 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III - Between Museum and Mass Media. Conceptual Strategies of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
• 080109 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Gewalt(ige) Bilder (nst.K.)
• 080135 PS Proseminar 3/4: Art and 'modern life'
• 080144 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Stifter u. Auftraggeber in d. italienischen Frührenaissance (n.K.)
• 080150 PS Proseminar 3/4: Wall-paintings in Western Tibetan monasteries
• 080210 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Austrian Architecture in the Period between the World Wars

4. Special Topics

M 11: Special Topics A

• 080044 VO Europäische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts I (nst.K.)
• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080059 UE Berlin in the 1920s. Art and culture in the Weimar Republic
• 080060 UE Site-specificity in sculpture and installation art since 1965: - Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art, institutional critique
• 080062 UE Aniconism and Iconoclasm in monotheistic religions
• 080070 UE Photography, moting picture and television in service of art history
• 080072 VO The Myth of the Cathedral - Gothic Architecture in Central and Western Europe
• 080080 UE Architectural Styles and their Terminology
• 080083 UE Übung: Wiener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Kontext der europäischen Manufakturen (n./ö.K.)
• 080086 VO The History of the Decorated Letter
• 080099 UE Baroque elements in the art of the 20th century
• 080137 VO Painting and Sculpture in the Era of Francis Joseph
• 080159 VO Inter arma silent musae? Architecture of 17th century

M 12: Special Topics B

• 080012 VO Die Malerei der Turfan-Oase (8.-14. Jh.n.Chr.) im Licht neuester Ausgrabungen und Funde (au.K.)
• 080067 UE Ottoman Architecture: An Introduction
• 080102 VO [ en ] Introduction to the Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent - From the early historic to the early medieval period
• 080110 UE Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)
• 080226 UE Introduction to Byzantine Architecture (with practical exercises)

5. Specialisation

M 13: Methods/Theories in Art History

• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080111 SE Theories on gender studies

M 14: Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080110 UE Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)

M 15: Individual Specialisation

• 080044 VO Europäische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts I (nst.K.)
• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080059 UE Berlin in the 1920s. Art and culture in the Weimar Republic
• 080060 UE Site-specificity in sculpture and installation art since 1965: - Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art, institutional critique
• 080067 UE Ottoman Architecture: An Introduction
• 080070 UE Photography, moting picture and television in service of art history
• 080072 VO The Myth of the Cathedral - Gothic Architecture in Central and Western Europe
• 080080 UE Architectural Styles and their Terminology
• 080083 UE Übung: Wiener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Kontext der europäischen Manufakturen (n./ö.K.)
• 080086 VO The History of the Decorated Letter
• 080087 UE Tutorial: Scientific Writing: Rewarding experience or cause for frustration? - A writers' workshop for art historians
• 080099 UE Baroque elements in the art of the 20th century
• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080137 VO Painting and Sculpture in the Era of Francis Joseph
• 080159 VO Inter arma silent musae? Architecture of 17th century
• 080198 AG Work Group: Methodology of field research in the Indo-Tibetan cultural zone
• 080226 UE Introduction to Byzantine Architecture (with practical exercises)

6. Final Stage

M 16: Art in Vienna

• 080065 EX Seminar: The Leopold Museum in Vienna

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

• 080004 SE Seminar: Serbian monasteries in the Middle Ages: Architecture and Decoration
• 080040 SE Seminar: Epitaphs for artists in early modern times
• 080046 SE Seminar: Das Kunstwerk: Original, Fälschung, Kopie, Klon (nst.K.)
• 080047 SE Architecture in Vienna after 1945
• 080051 SE Seminar: Critical Discussion of New Research on the Art and Archaeology of Eastern India - and on the Post-Colonial Art Institutions of India
• 080061 SE Seminar: Drawings by Raphael and his circle - Seminar in the Albertina in front of original drawings
• 080069 SE The St. Gall Plan - Analyses & Context of a Carolingian Manuscript
• 080073 SE Body/Space until 1300
• 080078 SE Seminar: Gothic or Renaissance? Architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries in Germany and Italy
• 080079 SE Seminar: Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
• 080093 SE Seminar:
• 080098 SE Seminar: 14th century Christian architecture in Austria
• 080103 SE Seminar: French and Italian architecture 1670-1770
• 080107 SE Seminar: The subversiv stich: When textiles become art
• 080154 SE Seminar: Jugendstil, Symbolismus und Psychoanalyse in Wien um 1900 (nst./ö.K.)

B. Master Degree Programme in Art History

M 1: Specialisation I

• 080004 SE Seminar: Serbian monasteries in the Middle Ages: Architecture and Decoration
• 080040 SE Seminar: Epitaphs for artists in early modern times
• 080046 SE Seminar: Das Kunstwerk: Original, Fälschung, Kopie, Klon (nst.K.)
• 080047 SE Architecture in Vienna after 1945
• 080051 SE Seminar: Critical Discussion of New Research on the Art and Archaeology of Eastern India - and on the Post-Colonial Art Institutions of India
• 080061 SE Seminar: Drawings by Raphael and his circle - Seminar in the Albertina in front of original drawings
• 080069 SE The St. Gall Plan - Analyses & Context of a Carolingian Manuscript
• 080073 SE Body/Space until 1300
• 080078 SE Seminar: Gothic or Renaissance? Architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries in Germany and Italy
• 080079 SE Seminar: Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
• 080093 SE Seminar:
• 080098 SE Seminar: 14th century Christian architecture in Austria
• 080103 SE Seminar: French and Italian architecture 1670-1770
• 080107 SE Seminar: The subversiv stich: When textiles become art
• 080154 SE Seminar: Jugendstil, Symbolismus und Psychoanalyse in Wien um 1900 (nst./ö.K.)

M 2: Specialisation II

• 080004 SE Seminar: Serbian monasteries in the Middle Ages: Architecture and Decoration
• 080040 SE Seminar: Epitaphs for artists in early modern times
• 080046 SE Seminar: Das Kunstwerk: Original, Fälschung, Kopie, Klon (nst.K.)
• 080047 SE Architecture in Vienna after 1945
• 080051 SE Seminar: Critical Discussion of New Research on the Art and Archaeology of Eastern India - and on the Post-Colonial Art Institutions of India
• 080061 SE Seminar: Drawings by Raphael and his circle - Seminar in the Albertina in front of original drawings
• 080069 SE The St. Gall Plan - Analyses & Context of a Carolingian Manuscript
• 080073 SE Body/Space until 1300
• 080078 SE Seminar: Gothic or Renaissance? Architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries in Germany and Italy
• 080079 SE Seminar: Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
• 080093 SE Seminar:
• 080098 SE Seminar: 14th century Christian architecture in Austria
• 080103 SE Seminar: French and Italian architecture 1670-1770
• 080107 SE Seminar: The subversiv stich: When textiles become art
• 080154 SE Seminar: Jugendstil, Symbolismus und Psychoanalyse in Wien um 1900 (nst./ö.K.)

M 3: Excursion within Austria

M 4: Excursion Abroad

• 080101 EX Excursion: Eastern India
• 080140 EX Excursion: Rom

M 5: Master-Preparation-Tool

• 080041 SE Privatissimum zur ästhetischen Theorie
• 080045 SE Privatissimum
• 080111 SE Theories on gender studies

M 6: Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080110 UE Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)

M 7: Method/Theory

• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080111 SE Theories on gender studies

M 8: Specialisation Art History

• 080044 VO Europäische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts I (nst.K.)
• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080059 UE Berlin in the 1920s. Art and culture in the Weimar Republic
• 080060 UE Site-specificity in sculpture and installation art since 1965: - Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art, institutional critique
• 080062 UE Aniconism and Iconoclasm in monotheistic religions
• 080072 VO The Myth of the Cathedral - Gothic Architecture in Central and Western Europe
• 080083 UE Übung: Wiener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Kontext der europäischen Manufakturen (n./ö.K.)
• 080086 VO The History of the Decorated Letter
• 080087 UE Tutorial: Scientific Writing: Rewarding experience or cause for frustration? - A writers' workshop for art historians
• 080099 UE Baroque elements in the art of the 20th century
• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080137 VO Painting and Sculpture in the Era of Francis Joseph
• 080159 VO Inter arma silent musae? Architecture of 17th century
• 080198 AG Work Group: Methodology of field research in the Indo-Tibetan cultural zone
• 080226 UE Introduction to Byzantine Architecture (with practical exercises)

M 9: Individual Focus

• 080044 VO Europäische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts I (nst.K.)
• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080059 UE Berlin in the 1920s. Art and culture in the Weimar Republic
• 080060 UE Site-specificity in sculpture and installation art since 1965: - Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art, institutional critique
• 080062 UE Aniconism and Iconoclasm in monotheistic religions
• 080067 UE Ottoman Architecture: An Introduction
• 080070 UE Photography, moting picture and television in service of art history
• 080072 VO The Myth of the Cathedral - Gothic Architecture in Central and Western Europe
• 080083 UE Übung: Wiener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Kontext der europäischen Manufakturen (n./ö.K.)
• 080086 VO The History of the Decorated Letter
• 080099 UE Baroque elements in the art of the 20th century
• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080137 VO Painting and Sculpture in the Era of Francis Joseph
• 080159 VO Inter arma silent musae? Architecture of 17th century
• 080198 AG Work Group: Methodology of field research in the Indo-Tibetan cultural zone
• 080226 UE Introduction to Byzantine Architecture (with practical exercises)

M 11: Research Seminar

• 080041 SE Privatissimum zur ästhetischen Theorie
• 080045 SE Privatissimum
• 080111 SE Theories on gender studies

C. Diploma Degree Programme in Medieval, Early Modern and Modern Art History

First Stage of the Degree Programme

1.1. Proseminars

1.1.1. Proseminar 1 (Including Practical Exercises before Original Works of Art)

1.1.2. Proseminar 2

• 080053 PS Parisian manuscript illumination in the fourteenth century
• 080056 PS Westminster Abbey - Royal art patronage and monastic piety in Medieval England - im mittelalterlichen England (m.K.)
• 080064 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: "Easy shopping" - Architectural history of department stores
• 080134 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I
• 080138 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Simone Martini und die höfische Kunst im 14. Jahrhundert (m.K.)
• 080149 PS Proseminar 2: Temples and sculptures in medieval Orissa (7.-13. century)
• 080152 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Death and its visuality in Byzantium
• 080232 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: - Indien-Rezeption in der westlichen Kunst des 19., 20. Jh. und der Gegenwart (au./nst.K.)

1.1.3. Proseminar 3/4

• 080017 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III
• 080024 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III:
• 080068 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Carolingian architecture
• 080095 PS Proseminar 3/4: Performance Art
• 080106 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III - Between Museum and Mass Media. Conceptual Strategies of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
• 080109 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Gewalt(ige) Bilder (nst.K.)
• 080135 PS Proseminar 3/4: Art and 'modern life'
• 080144 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Stifter u. Auftraggeber in d. italienischen Frührenaissance (n.K.)
• 080150 PS Proseminar 3/4: Wall-paintings in Western Tibetan monasteries
• 080210 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Austrian Architecture in the Period between the World Wars

First and Second Stage of the Degree Programme

1. Lectures

• 080012 VO Die Malerei der Turfan-Oase (8.-14. Jh.n.Chr.) im Licht neuester Ausgrabungen und Funde (au.K.)
• 080044 VO Europäische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts I (nst.K.)
• 080054 VO The Semantic Messages of Material in European Art. - A Survey from the Middle Ages up to the Present Production
• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080066 VO Art of the occident from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the High Medieval Period - Epochen der Kunstgeschichte: Mittelalter I (Spätantike bis Romanik)
• 080072 VO The Myth of the Cathedral - Gothic Architecture in Central and Western Europe
• 080084 VO Introduction to Iconography
• 080086 VO The History of the Decorated Letter
• 080102 VO [ en ] Introduction to the Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent - From the early historic to the early medieval period
• 080104 VO Einführung in das Fach Kunstgeschichte
• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080137 VO Painting and Sculpture in the Era of Francis Joseph
• 080159 VO Inter arma silent musae? Architecture of 17th century
• 060095 VO [ de en he ] Jewish cemeteries - places of worship, places of memorial or places of cultural heritage

2. Conversatoriums

3. Practical Courses

• 080059 UE Berlin in the 1920s. Art and culture in the Weimar Republic
• 080060 UE Site-specificity in sculpture and installation art since 1965: - Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art, institutional critique
• 080062 UE Aniconism and Iconoclasm in monotheistic religions
• 080067 UE Ottoman Architecture: An Introduction
• 080070 UE Photography, moting picture and television in service of art history
• 080080 UE Architectural Styles and their Terminology
• 080083 UE Übung: Wiener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Kontext der europäischen Manufakturen (n./ö.K.)
• 080087 UE Tutorial: Scientific Writing: Rewarding experience or cause for frustration? - A writers' workshop for art historians
• 080099 UE Baroque elements in the art of the 20th century
• 080110 UE Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)
• 080226 UE Introduction to Byzantine Architecture (with practical exercises)

4. Excursions

• 080101 EX Excursion: Eastern India
• 080140 EX Excursion: Rom

Second Stage of the Degree Programme

2.1. Seminars

2.1.1. for the Diploma Degree Programme in Art History

• 080004 SE Seminar: Serbian monasteries in the Middle Ages: Architecture and Decoration
• 080040 SE Seminar: Epitaphs for artists in early modern times
• 080046 SE Seminar: Das Kunstwerk: Original, Fälschung, Kopie, Klon (nst.K.)
• 080047 SE Architecture in Vienna after 1945
• 080051 SE Seminar: Critical Discussion of New Research on the Art and Archaeology of Eastern India - and on the Post-Colonial Art Institutions of India
• 080061 SE Seminar: Drawings by Raphael and his circle - Seminar in the Albertina in front of original drawings
• 080069 SE The St. Gall Plan - Analyses & Context of a Carolingian Manuscript
• 080073 SE Body/Space until 1300
• 080078 SE Seminar: Gothic or Renaissance? Architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries in Germany and Italy
• 080079 SE Seminar: Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
• 080093 SE Seminar:
• 080098 SE Seminar: 14th century Christian architecture in Austria
• 080103 SE Seminar: French and Italian architecture 1670-1770
• 080107 SE Seminar: The subversiv stich: When textiles become art
• 080154 SE Seminar: Jugendstil, Symbolismus und Psychoanalyse in Wien um 1900 (nst./ö.K.)

2.1.2. for Art History as Free Elective or Second Subject and Combination of Subjects (Old Curriculum)

• 080065 EX Seminar: The Leopold Museum in Vienna

2.2. Work Group

• 080198 AG Work Group: Methodology of field research in the Indo-Tibetan cultural zone

2.3. Research Seminars

• 080041 SE Privatissimum zur ästhetischen Theorie
• 080045 SE Privatissimum
• 080111 SE Theories on gender studies

Information on Complementary Courses from Other Departments

D. Erweiterungscurriculum Kunstgeschichte

1. Introductory Course Art History

• 080117 VO Propädeutikum Kunstgeschichte

2. Introduction to Art History

• 080054 VO The Semantic Messages of Material in European Art. - A Survey from the Middle Ages up to the Present Production
• 080084 VO Introduction to Iconography
• 080104 VO Einführung in das Fach Kunstgeschichte

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

• 080066 VO Art of the occident from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the High Medieval Period - Epochen der Kunstgeschichte: Mittelalter I (Spätantike bis Romanik)

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

• 080066 VO Art of the occident from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the High Medieval Period - Epochen der Kunstgeschichte: Mittelalter I (Spätantike bis Romanik)

5. Individual Specialisation

• 080044 VO Europäische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts I (nst.K.)
• 080057 VO Instantaneous Photography: It's Development since 1840, - it's Predecessors and Followers in the Visual Arts
• 080058 VO Pattern on a ground. The history of central European Ornament - from the Medieval up to the 20th century
• 080072 VO The Myth of the Cathedral - Gothic Architecture in Central and Western Europe
• 080086 VO The History of the Decorated Letter
• 080105 VO Introduction into Picture-Theories and Canons of Feminist Arthistories - Warum sind Fragen der Geschlechterkonstruktionen der blinde Fleck der Bildwissenschaft?
• 080137 VO Painting and Sculpture in the Era of Francis Joseph
• 080159 VO Inter arma silent musae? Architecture of 17th century