Each week of the course is organized around a different theme; most weeks featured two lectures on topics related to that theme.
| LISTS OF WORKS BY WEEK | LECTURE TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1. Introduction (no list of works) | 1. Introduction: What is Art? |
| 2. Art, History, Representation | 2a. Learning to Look/Interpreting What We See 2b. The Devotional Image |
| 3. Capturing the World | 3a. Pictorial Space and Perspective 3b. Media Revolutions: Paint and Print in the North |
| 4. Renaissance Worlds | 4a. Worlding the Italian Renaissance 4b. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael: Making Renaissance Art |
| 5. Women and Men in the Renaissance | 5a. Representing Women 5b. The Status of the Artist |
| 6. Reformation / Counterreformation | 6. Art as Theater in 17th-Century Rome |
| 7. The Global Seventeenth Century | 7. Dutch Art in Global Perspective |
| 8. Art and Power | 8a. Art and Absolutism in France and Spain 8b. Public Exhibitions: Enter the Art Critic |
| 9. Art and Morality | 9a. The Lure of the Antique 9b. Beyond Representation: Color and Touch |
| 10. Art and Empire | 10. Romanticism and Empire |
| 11. The Second Media Revolution | 11a. Photography and Photographic Truth 11b. The Artist and the City |
| 12. The Spaces of Modernity | 12. The Artist and the City, part 2 |
| 13. Art / Anti-Art | 13a. Modernist Primitivism 13b. Surrealism and Dada |
| 14. Art and After | 14a. Abstract Expressionism: Art and Politics 14b. After the Art Object: From Pop to Performance |
| 15. The Global Contemporary | 15. Where We Are Now; Concluding Thoughts |