College and Adult Art History
We have 33 learning resources listed for College and Adult Art History, including educational Online Classes, YouTube & Online Videos, Games, Books and more, from providers including Khan Academy, Annenberg Learner, Gresham College, and California Institute of the Arts.
A beginner's guide to Asian art and culture
College | Online classHinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions. It has complex roots, and involves a vast array of practices and a host of deities. Its plethora of forms and beliefs reflects the tremendous...
African art, an introduction
College | Online classFind here a brief introduction to the peoples and cultures of Africa.
American Cinema
7th - College | Online/YouTube videoWith insights from over 150 Hollywood insiders, this series explores modern American cinema and features over 300 clips from American movies. In-depth treatments present film as a powerful...
Art 1010
College | Online classArt 1010 is a short series of fun (and funny) animations created for the Utah System of Higher Education that introduce the history of Western art.
Art and Power
High School - College | Online/YouTube videoIn four lectures Professor Simon Thurley considers the interaction of art, architecture and power in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Britain. He asks why monarchs and aristocrats collected what...
Art history
7th - College | Online classWe understand the history of humanity through art. From prehistoric depictions of bison to contemporary abstraction, artists have addressed their time and place in history and expressed universal...
Art history basics
7th - College | Online classNew to art? This is a good place to start. Art gives us access to the way people at different moments in history have understood the world. Jump in and explore!
Art in 19th century Europe
College | Online classArt in 19th century Europe Explore Table of contents Topics Introduction—Becoming Modern Romanticism Early photography Victorian art and architecture The avant-garde: Realism, Impressionism and...
Art of Africa
High School - College | Online classAfrican art, an introduction 0 of 13 complete Find here a brief introduction to the peoples and cultures of Africa. Peoples and cultures Historical overview: to the 1500s Historical overview: from...
Art of Mexico in the 19th century
9th - College | Online classThe landscapes of José María Velasco and the first art school in the Americas, the Real Academia de San Carlos
Art of Oceania
College | Online classThe islands of the eastern Pacific are known as Polynesia, from the Greek for “many islands.” Set within a triangle formed by Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the south, Hawaii to the north and Rapa Nui...
Art of Southeast Asia
4th - College | Online classDiscover the extraordinary art and architecture of this vast region which includes palaces, temples and mosques inspired by the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic religions.
Art of the Americas to World War I
College | Online classNorth America before European colonization South America before European colonization Spanish colonies in the Americas Native American art after 1600 British Colonies to the Early Republic Art of...
Art of the ancient Mediterranean
7th - College | Online classSumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians – no wonder we need an introduction!
Art of the Islamic world
7th - College | Online classEarly Period (c. 640-900 C.E.) From the rightfully guided caliphs who succeeded Muhammad, through the Umayyads’ Dome of the Rock and Great Mosque of Damascus, to the decline of Abbasids rule.
Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical art in Europe
College | Online classGet a head start on the historical developments that shape Baroque art in the Catholic Italy, Spain, Flanders, France and in the Protestant north.
British Colonies to the Early Republic
9th - College | Online classAll content in “British Colonies to the Early Republic”
Byzantine (late Roman Empire)
7th - College | Online classConstantinople (now Istanbul) was the capital of the late Roman empire, but its ethereal mosaics, ivories, and metalwork often depart from classical naturalism.
Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.
High School - College | Online classMedieval artistic traditions include late antique, early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, migratory, Carolingian*, Romanesque, and Gothic, named for their principal culture, religion, government,...
Expressionism to Pop Art
Pre-K - College | Online classExpressionism to Pop Art Explore Table of contents Topics A beginner’s guide to 20th century art Early abstraction: Fauvism, Expressionism, and Cubism World War I, Futurism and Dada Art between the...
Greek art
High School - College | Online classRio 2016, London 2012, Beijing 2008, Olympia 776 B.C.E. find out how the ancient pan-Hellenic games inspired our modern Olympiad. Then learn to identify the classical orders and you will never look...
History of Graphic Design
7th - College | Online classThis condensed survey course focuses on four major areas of design and their history: Typography, Image-Making, Interactive Media, and Branding. In each class, we’ll start by observing the factors...
Indigenous Americas
College | Online classArt of the Indigenous Americas is among the world’s oldest artistic traditions. While its roots lie in northern Asia, it developed independently between c. 10,000 B.C.E. and 1492 C.E., which marked...
Introduction to cultures and religions for the study of AP Art History
High School - College | Online classExplore Hinduism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community. Learn more about Hinduism on t…
Late Gothic art in Italy
College | Online classItalian art from the late 13th and 14th centuries was once known as primitive because it was seen largely as a transition from Medieval abstraction to the naturalism of the Renaissance (with a dose...
Medieval period
High School - College | Online classMedieval Period (c. 900-1517 C.E.) The Fatimids (909-1171) ruled north Africa, and parts of Syria and the Seljuqs contolled eastern Islamic lands and eventually Iran, Iraq and much of Anatolia.
Native American art after 1600
7th - College | Online classNative societies across North American developed diverse material cultures that reflect the character of their regions and respond to the universal issues of human and spiritual existence.
Neolithic art
College | Online classThe Neolithic Revolution was the most important development in human history. The way we live today—settled in cities, protected by laws, eating food from farms—dates from approximately 10,000...
Paleolithic art
College | Online classHumans make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever technologies are available to us. But can we really know what such ancient images originally meant?
South, East, and Southeast Asia: 300 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
College | Online classBeliefs made visible: Buddhist art in South Asia Explore Buddhism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community. Learn more...