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

• 080039 PS Love in Early Modern Europe
• 080048 PS Proseminar 2: Heinrich von Ferstel
• 080053 PS Medieval Books of Hours. Use and Decoration
• 080056 PS The Medieval Cult of Saints and Relics in Art - Case Studies from the 13th and 14th centuries
• 080134 PS Hinge-pictures (4th-20th centuries)
• 080138 PS Giovanni Bellini
• 080154 PS Foreign worlds, exotic things: The influence of colonies, navigation and scientific inventions - on the dutch painting in the seventeenth century
• 080232 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Paintings and sculptures in the Western Himalaya

1.1.3. Proseminar 3/4

• 080027 PS Byzantine Art in the period of Iconoclasm - rupture or continuity? - Abbruch oder Kontinuität? (byz.K.)
• 080031 PS Re/Presence: History and its Images in Modern and Contemporary Art - modernen und zeitgenössischen Kunst (nst.K.)
• 080055 PS Proseminar 3/4: Who was Henrietta Johnston? - The Art of Painting in the European Colonies of Northern America (ca. 1700-1800)
• 080067 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Western Influence on Modern and Contemporary Indian Art - (nst./au.K.)
• 080068 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Cistercian monasteries Heiligenkreuz, Zwettl and Lilienfeld. - Architecture - liturgy - historical context
• 080071 PS Proseminar 3/4: Princely Apartment, Ceremony and wall painting in 17th and 18th century - aspects of research in residence culture
• 080081 PS Proseminar 3/4: White trash: Introduction into contemporary arts and medias
• 080135 PS Proseminar 3/4: Recent contributions to picture theory/icon criticism
• 080144 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Der Maler in Florenz zwischen Gotik und Frührenaissance (m./n.K.)
• 080210 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Josef Frank. Architecture - Interior Decoration - - Architectural Theory

First and Second Stage of the Degree Programme

1. Lectures

• 080022 VO Introduction into the Art History of the Buddhist Temples in India and Tibet
• 080025 VO Museumspraxis und Ausstellungswesen
• 080032 VO Introduction to the terminology and morphology of architecture
• 080044 VO European Painting of the 20th century II
• 080054 VO Introduction in the Fine Arts of Europe. A Survey from the Middle Ages up to Present Time
• 080072 VO French Renaissance Chateaux
• 080074 VO War - Civil war - Terror in Movies after 9/11
• 080082 VO Die Rezeption der italienischen Malerei in Europa im 16. Jahrhundert (n.K.)
• 080104 VO European Gothic Art
• 080226 VO Byzantium after Byzantium

2. Conversatoriums

3. Practical Courses

• 080019 UE Learning and teaching history of art, combined with practical work in the museum environment
• 080030 UE Critically Reading Byzantium
• 080035 UE Sculptural and Spatial Aspects of Video Art
• 080036 UE Buildings and Images. The Visualization and Representation of Architecture
• 080037 UE Gender, feminism and documenta 12
• 080050 UE [ en ] The Role of Art in Modern and Post-modern Architecture and Design
• 080052 UE The cultural exchange between France and Austria from 1700 to 1900
• 080057 UE Outsider Art/Art Brut. - Tutorial on the art historic discussion of artworks of artists suffering from mental illnesses
• 080059 UE Introduction in Gender, Queer and Postcolonial Studies - queer und post colonial Studies (nst.K.)
• 080064 UE Viennese ecclesiastical architecture
• 080080 UE Theory and History of Architecture
• 080084 UE Übung im Kunsthistorischen Museum zu Werken des 16. Jahrhunderts (n.K.)
• 080087 UE Scientific communication - A writers' workshop for art historians - A writers' workshop for art historians
• 080110 AG Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)

4. Excursions

• 080020 EX Excursion: Spain
• 080028 EX Excursion
• 080038 EX Excursion: Carinthia
• 080043 EX Exkursion: Salzburg - Excursion
• 080060 EX Exkursion: Serbien - Excursion
• 080063 EX Excursion: Genova
• 080114 EX Excursion: Classicism in Vienna
• 080167 EX Excursion

Second Stage of the Degree Programme

2.1. Seminars

2.1.1. for the Diploma Degree Programme in Art History

• 080012 SE Seminar
• 080024 SE Seminar: Tomb and Memorial Art
• 080040 SE Seminar: Cultural Exchange in Genova
• 080042 SE Seminar: Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615 - Rome 1673)
• 080046 SE Seminar: Modern Art and Architecture in Spain
• 080047 SE The Stephansdom - the new state of research critically assessed
• 080069 SE Architecture and Art of aristocratic religious women
• 080073 SE Irony and Art around 1900 (Thorstein Veblen versus Dada)
• 080075 SE Questioning the picture on digital conditions. Picture theory vs. Media theory?
• 080078 SE Seminar: The Parler family - architects and sculptors of the 14th century
• 080079 SE Seminar: Italian Baroque Architecture
• 080085 SE Seminar: Europäische Hofkunst des 16. Jahrhunderts (n.K.) - (1527-1600)
• 080086 SE Seminar: Das Ornament. Formen und Theorien (n.K.)
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Painting of the 16th century
• 080098 SE Seminar: Architecture in Hungary: The 12th and 13th centuries
• 080159 SE Seminar: Bauen in der frühen Neuzeit. Themen, Aufgaben und Lösungen (n.K.)

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

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
• 080076 SE Forschungsseminar für DissertantInnen und DiplomandInnen

Information on Complementary Courses from Other Departments

• 140118 SE African Masks: Performative Art and Ritual
• 140143 VO Women in Buddhism
• 140144 PS Women, Men and Religion in Contemporary Hindi Film
• 140145 SE Women in Theory and Practice of Political Hinduism