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Welcome to the Department of Art History

The Department is a dynamic and internationally recognised centre for study and research into the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture. We were founded in 1927 and have been growing ever since. We have been welcoming students for nearly one hundred years, and offer a rich programme of education at all levels, from Bachelor to PhD, and we also teach on the University of the Third Age.

Our staff teach and research topics covering the period from classical antiquity to the present. We also take advantage of the rich artistic and architectural heritage of our home city, Brno, and its excellent galleries and museums, from the historic and modern collections of the Moravian Gallery to the exciting programme of contemporary art exhibitions staged by venues such as the House of Art (Dům Umění) and the Fait Gallery.

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12 Mar

SMArt Talks: A Curatorial Turn in Architecture?

We cordially invite you to another lecture evening from the SMArt Talks cycle. The talk, A Curatorial Turn in Architecture?, will be given by Helena Huber-Doudová, a curator of the Architecture Collection in the National Gallery Prague. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 12th of March 2024, from 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, MU, Veveří 28, Brno). The lecture will be held in the Czech language.

March 2024

Femininity and Design at Work: Online Workshop Series Programme

We cordially invite you to the series of online workshops, 'Femininity and Design at Work,' organised by Julia Secklehner (Masaryk University) and Leah Armstrong (University of Applied Arts Vienna).

29 Feb

The presentation of the new photographic book Wonders in stone

The Centre for Early Medieval Studies cordially invites you to the presentation of the new photographic book Wonders in stone.

The event will take place on Thursday 29 February at 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library.

The book presents monuments of Georgia and Armenia, captured by art historians from different parts of the world during their travels.

27 Feb

SMArt Talks: Chittaprosad’s Famine Sketches in Light of Decolonial Aesthetics

We cordially invite you to another lecture evening from the SMArt Talks cycle. The talk, Chittaprosad’s Famine Sketches in Light of Decolonial Aesthetics, will be given by Avishek Ray, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 27th of February 2024, from 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, MU, Veveří 28, Brno).

22 Feb

Lecture StředověC JinaX: On the Road

We would like to invite you to the opening lecture of the StředověC JinaX series this semester. Prof. Ivan Foletti will tell the story of the church of Ateni Sioni.

6 Feb

SMArt Talks: En plein air: The Visibility of Women’s Work in the Interwar Avant-Garde and Antifascist Resistance

We cordially inviteyou to the first lecture of the series SMArt Talks in this semester. The lecture will be given by Meghan Forbes, a scholarship holder from New York, who is a guest at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences where she's working on Photo Matrix Project. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 6 February 2024 at 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, Veveří 28, Brno).