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| Course Code | Title | Instructor(s) | Area(s) | Year(s) Offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BKS2000H | The Medieval Book Then and Now | Cohen | Medieval | 2018–19 |
| COL5100H | The Late Barthes: The Neutral, Mourning, and Photography | Ricco | Modern/Contemporary | 2024–25, 2012–13 |
| COL5109H | Jean-Luc Nancy: Retreating the Aesthetic | Ricco | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2013–14 |
| COL5127H | Queer Ethics and Aesthetics | Ricco | Modern/Contemporary | 2021–22 |
| COL5142H | Women and Sex and Talk | Ricco | Modern/Contemporary | 2023–24 |
| FAH1001H | Methods | Art History Graduate Faculty | Other | Every year |
| FAH1114H | Multicultural Arts of Medieval Sicily | Caskey | Medieval | 2015–16 |
| FAH1118H | The Medieval Treasury | Caskey | Medieval | 2021–22, 2016–17 |
| FAH1119H | China in the Global Middle Ages | Purtle | Medieval | 2022–23, 2018–19, 2016–17 |
| FAH1121H | The Twelfth-Century Renaissance? | Cohen | Medieval | 2015–16 |
| FAH1123H | Art of the Medieval Book | Cohen | Medieval | 2022–23, 2020–21, 2019–20, 2013–14 |
| FAH1125H | Medieval Pilgrimage Art and Architecture | Caskey | Medieval | 2017–18, 2013–14, 2011–12 |
| FAH1126H | Exceptional Cities of the Middle Ages | Caskey | Medieval | 2012–13 |
| FAH1127H | Early Medieval Art | Cohen | Medieval | 2024–25, 2023–24, 2012–13, 2011–12 |
| FAH1129H | Medieval Ages Approaches | Wollesen | Medieval | 2012–13 |
| FAH1130H | Architecture of the Otherworld: Islamic Architecture and the Immaterial | Mostafa | Medieval | 2023–24, 2022–23 |
| FAH1134H | Communal Painting and Propaganda in Italy during the 13th and 14th Centuries | Wollesen | Medieval | 2011–12 |
| FAH1175H | Early Islamic Architecture | Mostafa | Medieval | 2018–19, 2017–18 |
| FAH1177H | Architecture of the Umayyads | Mostafa | Medieval | 2021–22, 2020–21, 2019–20 |
| FAH1201H | Art, Space, and Ritual in Renaissance Convents | Periti | Early Modern | 2011–12 |
| FAH1202H | Correggio and the Problem of Italian Renaissance Art | Periti | Early Modern | 2021–22, 2018–19, 2015–16, 2012–13 |
| FAH1203H | Art and Monasticism in Renaissance Italy | Periti | Early Modern | 2013–14 |
| FAH1204H | The Cassinese Art of Reform in Renaissance Italy | Periti | Early Modern | 2014–15 |
| FAH1205H | Early Modern Intermediality | Levy | Early Modern | 2024–25, 2023–24, 2022–23, 2020–21, 2019–20, 2018–19, 2016–17 |
| FAH1206H | Artistic Localities in Italy and China | Periti, Purtle | Early Modern | 2019–20 |
| FAH1207H | Formalism and Its Objects | Purtle | Modern/Contemporary | 2020–21 (Cancelled) |
| FAH1208H | Multiples in Chinese Art | Purtle | Early Modern | 2020–21 |
| FAH1210H | Chinese Painting: Objects, Theories, Methods | Purtle | Early Modern | 2023–24 |
| FAH1220H | Multi-Media Transmorphism: The Many Arts of the Netherlandish Renaissance | Kavaler | Early Modern | 2023–24, 2022–23 |
| FAH1221H | Inside the Painter's Studio | Sohm | Early Modern | 2020–21, 2019–20, 2018–19, 2017–18, 2016–17, 2015–16, 2014–15, 2013–14, 2012–13 |
| FAH1224H | Renaissance in Miniature | Periti | Early Modern | 2024–25, 2020–21 |
| FAH1226H | Architecture and Alchemy before Modernism | Anderson | Early Modern | 2011–12 |
| FAH1229H | Architecture of the Global Renaissance | Anderson | Early Modern | 2020–21, 2018–19, 2014–15 |
| FAH1231H | Northern European Sculpture 1400–1600 | Kavaler | Early Modern | 2024–25, 2021–22, 2019–20, 2016–17, 2014–15, 2013–14 |
| FAH1232H | Liquescent Art and Cultures | Anderson | Early Modern | 2022–23, 2021–22 |
| FAH1245H | Pieter Bruegel and Netherlandish Painting of the Sixteenth Century | Kavaler | Early Modern | 2014–15 |
| FAH1249H | Margaret of Austria and the Renaissance in the Netherlands: Hieronymus Bosch, Jan Gossaert, Albrecht Dürer et al. | Kavaler | Early Modern | 2015–16, 2012–13 |
| FAH1288H | Material Bernini: Terracotta, Ink, Bronze and Stone | Levy | Early Modern | 2012–13 |
| FAH1299H | Heinrich Wölfflin's Principles of Art History (1915) @ 100: A Worldwide Reception History | Levy, plus a consortium of 12 colleagues from around the world (2015–16 only) | Early Modern, Modern/Contemporary | 2015–16, 2011–12 |
| FAH1310H | Topics in Chinese Painting History | Purtle | Medieval, Early Modern | 2024–25 |
| FAH1410H | Artwriting, Past and Present | Cheetham | Modern/Contemporary | 2023–24, 2015–16, 2012–13 |
| FAH1411H | Art and Analogy | Cheetham | Modern/Contemporary | 2020–21, 2017–18, 2016–17 |
| FAH1416H | Art History and the Digital | Gu | Modern/Contemporary | 2023–24 |
| FAH1456H | Theories of Photographic Manipulation: Prehistories to Pictorialism | Bear | Modern/Contemporary | 2012–13 |
| FAH1457H | Vernacular Photography | Dewan | Modern/Contemporary | 2020–21 |
| FAH1458H | Viewing History: The Visual Experience of the Past, 1750–1900 | Bear | Modern/Contemporary | 2016–17, 2011–12 |
| FAH1462H | Photography and Scientific Representation in the 19th Century | Bear | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2014–15 |
| FAH1463H | Realisms | Kavaler, Bear | Medieval, Early Modern, Modern/Contemporary | 2020–21, 2018–19 |
| FAH1464H | The Recalcitrant Icon | Jain | Thematic | 2016–17 |
| FAH1471H | The Aesthetics of Democracy | Jain | Modern/Contemporary | 2015–16 |
| FAH1475H | Picasso in View of Nanette | Legge | Modern/Contemporary | 2021–22, 2019–20 |
| FAH1476H | Surrealism and Art | Legge | Modern/Contemporary | 2016–17 |
| FAH1481H | Automotive Affects | Jain | Modern/Contemporary | 2012–13 |
| FAH1482H | The Time of Art History | Jain | Modern/Contemporary | 2014–15 |
| FAH1486H | Bloomsbury and Vorticism | Syme | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2019–20, 2012–13 |
| FAH1488H | The Nature of Landscape | Jain | Modern/Contemporary | 2017–18 |
| FAH1489H | Re: Vision (Comparative Histories of the Senses) | Jain | Modern/Contemporary | 2019–20 |
| FAH1490H | Photography and the Occult | Kaplan | Modern/Contemporary | 2024–25, 2023–24, 2022–23 |
| FAH1500H | Augmented Reality Art | Kaplan | Modern/Contemporary | 2019–20, 2015–16 |
| FAH1755H | Architecture and the Project of Industrial Modernity | Clarke | Modern/Contemporary | 2016–17 |
| FAH1756H | Acoustic Space | Clarke | Modern/Contemporary | 2019–20, 2017–18 |
| FAH1757H | Animal Images | Jain | Thematic | 2020–21 |
| FAH1758H | What Images Do: Approaches From South Asia | Jain | Modern/Contemporary | 2021–22 |
| FAH1759H | Modern Architecture and Its Representations | Clarke | Modern/Contemporary | |
| FAH1800H | James Wilson Morrice | Reid | Modern/Contemporary | 2014–15, 2012–13 |
| FAH1801H | Portraiture in Canada, 1750–1870: Painting into Photography | Reid | Modern/Contemporary | 2017–18, 2016–17, 2015–16, 2013–14, 2011–12 |
| FAH1820H | Modern Craft | Syme | Modern/Contemporary | 2024–25 |
| FAH1870H | Recent Canadian Art in the International Perspective: Ecological Art in Canada since the 1960s | Cheetham | Modern/Contemporary | 2023–24, 2011–12 |
| FAH1920H | Primitivism to Globalism: Theories of Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Arts | Harney | Modern/Contemporary | 2019–20, 2011–12 |
| FAH1921H | GeoAesthetics: Arctic Voyaging | Cheetham | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2021–22, 2018–19, 2014–15 |
| FAH1922H | Contemporary Art and Ethnography: Renewed Exchanges | Harney | Modern/Contemporary | 2020–21 |
| FAH1930H | Contemporary Art Since 1960 (cross-listed from Visual Studies VIS1010H) | Schelle | Modern/Contemporary | 2013–14, 2012–13, 2011–12 |
| FAH1931H | Contemporary Art: Theory and Criticism (cross-listed from Visual Studies VIS1020H) | Lloyd, Steele | Modern/Contemporary | 2013–14, 2012–13, 2011–12 |
| FAH1932H | Paradigmatic Exhibitions: History, Theory, Criticism (cross-listed from Visual Studies VIS1101H) | Fischer | Modern/Contemporary | 2013–14, 2012–13, 2011–12 |
| FAH1934H | Cosmopolitan/Comparative Modernisms | Harney | Modern/Contemporary | 2018–19, 2015–16, 2012–13 |
| FAH1935H | Contemporary Art Practices and the Modernist Archive | Harney | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2014–15 |
| FAH1936H | The Retro-Modern and the Time of the Contemporary | Harney | Modern/Contemporary | 2017–18 |
| FAH1940H | Photography and Humour | Kaplan | Modern/Contemporary | 2023–24, 2021–22, 2018–19, 2016–17 |
| FAH1951H | Contemporary Chinese Art and its Discontents | Gu | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2020–21, 2019–20, 2018–19, 2016–17, 2014–15, 2012–13 |
| FAH1956H | Can Art History Speak Chinese? | Gu | Modern/Contemporary | 2013–14 |
| FAH1960H | Indigenous Art, Land, and Material Relations in the Great Lakes | Migwans | Modern/Contemporary | 2024–25, 2023–24, 2020–21 |
| FAH1961H | Art and Activism | Migwans | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23, 2021–22 |
| FAH1965H | The Sixties Revisited | Harakawa | Modern/Contemporary | 2024–25, 2023–24 |
| FAH2017H | Art and Archaeology of the Everyday | Knappett | Ancient | 2012–13 |
| FAH2018H | Art in the Aegean Bronze Age: Contemporary Perspectives | Knappett | Ancient | 2016–17, 2011–12 |
| FAH2020H | Connectivity and Mobility: Networks in the Ancient World | Knappett | Ancient | 2024–25 |
| FAH2021H | Myth and Fantasy in Roman Painting | Ewald | Ancient | 2018–19, 2015–16 |
| FAH2022H | Rhetoric of Space | Kim | Ancient | 2013–14 |
| FAH2023H | Mind and Materiality: Views from Art History and Archaeology | Knappett | Ancient | 2018–19, 2014–15 |
| FAH2025H | Visual Narrative and Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Art | Kim | Ancient | 2020–21 |
| FAH2026H | Myth into Art: Myth and Visual Narrative in Antiquity | Ewald | Ancient | 2014–15 |
| FAH2027H | Women and Gender in Ancient Greece | Kim | Ancient | 2018–19, 2015–16 |
| FAH2028H | Art and Philosophy of Time | Kim | Ancient | 2019–20, 2016–17 |
| FAH2029H | The Art of Perception | Kim | Ancient | 2017–18 |
| FAH2034H | Topics in Roman Imperial Art: Monuments and Metanarratives | Ewald | Ancient | 2022–23, 2020–21, 2016–17, 2012–13, 2011–12 |
| FAH2035H | Visual Narrative and Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Art | Kim | Ancient | 2014–15 |
| FAH2037H | Empathy, Embodiment and Emotion in Ancient Art | Ewald | Ancient | 2021–22, 2017–18 |
| FAH2038H | Greek and Roman Sculpture at the ROM | Ewald | Ancient | 2019–20 |
| FAH2041H | Greek Vases at the Royal Ontario Museum | Kim | Ancient | 2023–24 |
| FAH2042H | Sex, Gender and Subjectivity in Ancient Art | Ewald | Ancient | 2024–25 |
| FAH2060H | Artisans and Artists in the Ancient World | Sapirstein | Ancient | 2023–24 |
| FAH3000H | Art of the Caribbean and its Diasporas | Harakawa | Modern/Contemporary | 2022–23 |
| FAH3000H | Life of Christiane Pflug | Uhlyarik, Legge | Modern/Contemporary | 2017–18 |
| FAH3000H | Making Pictures in Medieval China | Wang | Medieval | 2015–16 |
| FAH3000H | Early Mass Visual Culture in the United States | Leja | Modern/Contemporary | 2014–15 |
| FAH3011H | Roman Painting | Katsougiannopoulou | Ancient | 2013–14 |
| FAH3013H | Topics in Italian Renaissance Art History | Nova | Early Modern | 2016–17 |
| FAH3013H | Problems in Song Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy | Murck | Medieval | 2014–15 |
| FAH3000H | Photography's Collective Future and Other Lives | Ricco, Hayes | Modern/Contemporary | 2021–22 |
| JLF1492H | Retreating the Aesthetic | Ricco | Modern/Contemporary | 2011–12 |
| MAC1000Y | Methods in Mediterranean Archeology | Knappett, Sapirstein | Ancient | Every year |