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We're now offering a greater number of art classes. We also have need-based scholarships to help make art accessible for everyone.
Learn to connect works of art to history. What was happening politically, socially, and culturally at the time the piece was made? How did these circumstances shape the artist’s formal choices?
The Barnes-de Mazia Certificate Program
This special track offers an immersion in the Barnes method and an introduction to other interpretive approaches.
Online Class: Garden of Earthly Delights: Art and Nature
Discover roles nature has played in the history of art, from subject and symbol to medium and concept.
Online Class: Impressionism: Rebellion & Rivalry
Explore how the impressionists overturned the rules for painting laid out by the French academy and how the style was received by their contemporaries.
Online Class: Medieval Art in the Barnes Collection
Study some of the under-explored treasures of the collection, including paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts.
Online Class: Decadence Through the Ages
In this team-taught course, we trace the visual representations of spectacles of excess throughout art history.