Free Painting, Architecture, & Sculpture Courses

This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting.

A survey of European architecture, sculpture, and painting from Late Antiquity to the end of the Gothic period.

This course examines the contributions of women artists throughout history and addresses the question of why women’s art has been ignored or denigrated in the study and criticism of art.

Learning to perceive art through discussion of selected historical periods, development of a descriptive vocabulary, and observation of actual works of art. Introduction to theories of interpretation and evaluation.

This lecture series, conceived by the late UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill, is a legacy of his life's work in the history of the visual arts of China.

Eighteenth century artists and critics were convinced that art could be a force to improve society.

Take a trip across the world and back through the ages to experience the art of many cultures and historical periods.

Dr. Vida Hull's "Art History Survey" course covers the history of painting, architecture, & sculpture from the Renaissance all the way up to the 20th century. This 36-hour course is neatly divided into lectures that focus on specific artistic periods such as the Italian Renaissance, Dutch Baroque, Impressionism, and so much more.

You can watch 13 lectures from this Modern Art History course which is being offered through YouTube from the Otis College of Art and Design. In these lectures Dr. Parme Giuntini, Director of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design, covers many schools of modern art...

In four lectures, Professor Simon Thurley considers the interaction of art, architecture and power in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Britain. He asks why monarchs and aristocrats collected what we now call art and how it fitted into their world picture.