History of Art: University of Cambridge

Courses in History of Art have been taught at Cambridge since 1959 as part of the Architecture degree. In 1970 a separate Department of History of Art was established. Today the Departments of Architecture and History of Art form a single Faculty, sharing the excellent Faculty Library.

Key research areas:

• Medieval art and architecture (Prof Paul Binski)
• Italian Renaissance art (Prof Paul Joannides)
• French painting eighteenth to nineteenth centuries (Prof Paul Joannides)
• Northern European Renaissance (Prof Jean Michel Massing)
• Italian Renaissance architecture and theory (Prof Deborah Howard)
• Art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto (Prof Deborah Howard, Prof Paul Joannides)
• Russian art (Dr Rosalind P Blakesley)
• Arts and crafts movement (Dr Rosalind P Blakesley)
• English architecture seventeenth to nineteenth centuries (Prof David Watkin - Emeritus Professor)
• Eighteenth- to Twentieth-century British Architecture (Dr Frank Salmon)
• Twentieth-century art (Dr Alyce Mahon, Mr Duncan Robinson)
• Surrealism, contemporary art (Dr Alyce Mahon)