Art History

Student Curators Offer Insight into Michelangelo’s Enduring Impact

Video: Brooks Rich '03 on Artist Rockwell Kent and Bowdoin's Kent Archives

Insight Out: Exploring Gifts of Art from Private Collector

Professor Perkinson's Medieval Portraiture Book Gets Top Prize

Art History offers courses that examine works of art in their historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts. Students study not only the formal aesthetic values of these works, but also the ways in which works of art reflect the cultures and the personalities that produced them.

Although most courses take the form of classroom lectures and discussions, the department places a good deal of emphasis on the study of original objects through visits to the Bowdoin Museum of Art - one of the richest collegiate art collections in America - and through field trips to the museums of Boston and other eastern cities.