MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture warburg.sas.ac.uk The course was always inspiring and Investing in your future assiduously well taught, whether we were learning about picture Many Warburg alumni have gone on to framing and restoration, studying pursue PhD study at the Institute and Michelangelo’s letters in his own elsewhere across the globe, including the handwriting, or handling rare books Universities of Cambridge, Copenhagen, from the world-class library. Notre Dame (US), Padua, and La Sapienza David“ Daly, 2016 (Rome), and to pursue careers at cultural institutions such as Sotheby’s, the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the Why study with” us? Government Art Collection, the National Gallery, Art Council England, and the As a student at the Warburg Institute, you National Library, Argentina. Read more will have access to the best resources for about Warburg alumni: the study of Renaissance art and culture in warburg.blogs.sas.ac.uk London. Unparalleled staff contact hours are combined with access to the Warburg Library, with its unique cataloguing system specifically designed to aid research, This 12-month full-time or 36-month part- and the National Gallery’s collection and time programme provides mastery in: archives. About the The intellectual discipline of Art History Through the Institute’s research projects, for academic research and museum degree work, focusing primarily on the period fellowship programmes and events, 1300–1700, its objects of study, and and its informal collegiate atmosphere, modes of interpretation students have extensive opportunities The MA in Art History, for networking with an international The intellectual and practical aspects community of scholars, which significantly Curatorship and Renaissance of curatorship, with the opportunity to enriches the learning experience and can Culture aims to train a new curate an online exhibition as part of generation of art historians degree coursework provide ideal connections for your future career. and museum curators by Renaissance culture, to enable combining the art historical critical evaluation of artworks and Studying in Bloomsbury at the centre of an and scholarly traditions of the conditions in which they were academic and cultural hub, students also commissioned, produced, and enjoyed benefit from visits and training sessions the Warburg Institute with at neighbouring institutions including the practical experience of Primary source materials in original I have kept in contact with many languages and translation for original the British Museum, the Wellcome Trust, the National Gallery. All of and the British Library, and further afield of the Warburg Institute staff and research Fellows and I continue to collaborate the V&A, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the our graduates are awarded a with some of them on research The programme will equip you with the National Portrait Gallery, and the Courtauld University of London degree. projects, lectures or seminars. skills required to become either an academic Gallery. London is regularly named the Dr Laura Popoviciu art historian with a serious insight into the best university city in the world for its Curator: Research & Information behind-the-scenes working of a pre-eminent welcoming attitude, diversity, and vibrant museum, or a curator with the research skills “(Historical), UK Government Art student-friendly culture. Collection necessary for high-level museum work. ” warburg.sas.ac.uk warburg.sas.ac.uk Teaching, learning, and The programme is supported by an 5. Dissertation: 15,000 words unassessed Methods and Techniques assessment of Scholarship core module, which will introduce you to the nuts and bolts of Structure Modules are taught by academics at scholarly work in late medieval and early the Warburg and museum professionals modern cultural history (broadly conceived), Core modules: terms 1 and 2 at the National Gallery, giving you the and prepare you to undertake original opportunity to combine your academic research in this field. The second term will Art History and Renaissance Culture: Image to Action study with behind-the-scenes training on focus on guiding you through the process Curating at the National Gallery a range of curatorial practices. of choosing and researching a dissertation topic. All students take four core modules and Language and Palaeographical Studies two option modules. The core module on The course is examined as follows: Methods and Techniques of Scholarship (unassessed) Language and Palaeographical Studies 1. Ar t History and Renaissance Culture: includes training at all levels in in a choice Image to Action: 4,000-word essay of French, Italian or Latin, as well as 2. C urating at the National Gallery: Option modules: term 2 (two to be chosen) palaeographical training in one chosen 4,000-word catalogue entry on a painting language. You will have the opportunity held in the Gallery’s collection Classical Disorders: Architecture, Painting and the Afterlives of the Renaissance to conduct an independent research project through the dissertation, which is 3. Language and Palaeographical Studies: Cosmological Images: Representing the Universe completed in the summer term under the examinations in palaeography and guidance of a supervisor from either the French, Italian or Latin Global Objects in Western Modern Discourses Warburg or the National Gallery. 4. Two option modules: 4,000-word essays Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern (with the exception of *) Renaissance Painting and the Workshop Tradition
Renaissance Political Thought from Erasmus to Campanella
Religion and Society in Italy
*Curating Renaissance Art and Exhibitions (examined by a 15 minute presentation on an online exhibiti
Additional modules may be offered, depending on both student numbers (a minimum of four students required per option) and teaching staff availability; seewarburg.sas.ac.uk/studying for full details.
Dissertation: term 3
The opportunity to conduct an independent research project utilising the world-renowned resources at both the Institute and the National Gallery, under the guidance of an academic from the Warburg or a museum professional from the National Gallery.
warburg.sas.ac.uk warburg.sas.ac.uk Funding opportunities have been offered a place. To learn more The University of London experience about accommodation options, please visit halls.london.ac.uk/our-accommodation. As part of the School of Advanced Study Cross-institute collaboration is actively The School of Advanced Study and the (SAS), University of London, Warburg encouraged, making us an ideal location Warburg Institute offer a number of students benefit from a collaborative, for interdisciplinary research. funding options, including full scholarships Course summary interdisciplinary research environment. SAS and fee bursaries for both home/EU Warburg students join a community is a national research hub and the Institute and international students. The Institute Degree structure of some 250 students in SAS. They are enjoys close links with its other members, also has an excellent record in securing Full time (one year): Four core modules and encouraged to participate in the wider including the Institute of Classical Studies, external funding, and is happy to work two option modules chosen from a range of activities of the University and are able to the Institute of Historical Research, and the with prospective students on funding topics, plus a dissertation of 15,000 words. use the libraries of other colleges. Institute of Modern Languages Research. applications. For details, please visit Part time (two years): Year 1: three core warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying. modules (including language and palaeography) and one option module. Entry requirements Year 2: one core module and one option module. Students will work on the The normal minimum entry requirement dissertation over both summers, with one- is an upper second-class honours degree to-one supervision during each summer. from a British university, or an equivalent qualification from a foreign institution, in Part time Plus (three years): Year 1: one any discipline in the humanities which core module, part one of Methods and is related to the course. English is the Techniques of Scholarship, the language, language of instruction and applicants are and one option module. required to demonstrate an appropriate Year 2: one core module, palaeography, level of proficiency. For more information and part two of Methods and Techniques on entry requirements, please visit sas. of Scholarship. You will be allocated your ac.uk/graduate-study/entry-requirements. dissertation supervisor and begin work on it. Year 3: one option module and the How to apply dissertation. Students will work on the Other programmes in Art History and dissertation over the summers of Years 1 and Renaissance Culture Applications should be made online via 2, with one-to-one supervision during each the SAS website. For full details of the summer. application process, please visit Postgraduate Certificate MRes Art History and Renaissance warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying. Fees The PGCert gives students the Culture For up-to-date fees and funding opportunity to pursue a personal or This programme is ideal for students who opportunities, please visit sas.ac.uk/funding professional interest in their chosen wish to research and write on a complex, Accommodation subject while gaining a postgraduate specialised area of history within the qualification. It is ideal for students who Institute’s field of study that interests Full-time students, and part-time Learn more want to study at a postgraduate level them, while still having the support of students with disabilities, may apply for but who do not want to commit to a taught modules to help develop the accommodation in one of the University The Warburg Institute: full MA. theoretical and methodological skills of London’s award-winning intercollegiate warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying necessary for such a project. Halls of Residence. Our Registry office will School of Advanced Study: send you housing information after you sas.ac.uk/study warburg.sas.ac.uk warburg.sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images, and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Its open-stack Library, Photographic Collection, and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching, and a prestigious events and publication programme. The National Gallery houses the UK’s national collection of over 2,300 Western European paintings from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Its collection contains famous works, such as The Wilton Diptych, Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks, van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, and Turner’s Fighting Temeraire. The Gallery’s aim is to care for the collection, to enhance, and to study it, while encouraging access to the pictures for the education and enjoyment of the widest possible public now and in the future. The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. 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