Department of History of Art

New display of JMW Turner's watercolours and drawings, now open to visitors at Tate Britain

A wide-ranging, illustrated exploration of the uses of stucco in Islamic architecture in the pre-modern period

Researchers at the University of York are working with Harewood House to shed new light on the social and cultural life of the country house in celebration of 250 years of novelist, Jane Austen, and painter, JMW Turner.

We have been ranked 54th in the world and 11th in the UK for the study of Arts and Humanities in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

How can attention to artistic practices and visual interventions from across the globalmosaic of local contexts contribute meaningfully to the decentring of hegemonic narrativesand research on art and HIV/AIDS?

This roundtable event seeks to broaden perspectives on the Baroque from a museum perspective,embracing its diverse and multi-media character.

This conference will broaden perspectives on the Baroque, embracing its transcontinental and multi-media character.

This lecture examines a series of plantation landscapes made in seventeenth-centurycolonial Dutch Brazil.