Trinity's Fine Arts Department takes great pride in its Art History Program -- and rightfully so. While it is small enough to offer students individual attention, it is also worldly enough to endow them with a breadth of knowledge essential to a career in art history or related fields -- and the depth of curiosity, sense of purpose, and clarity of thought requisite to success in any endeavor.

Trinity's Art History faculty is one of many outstanding strengths. Department Chairman Michael FitzGerald, for example, publishes and lectures widely on 20th-century art, and his teaching encompasses the history of photography and film as well as specialized courses in the art market. Senior department member Michael Mahoney, who is pursuing research on the 17th-century painter Salvator Rosa, offers expertise in Baroque and Asian art. Alden Gordon specializes in 18th- and 19th-century European art and architecture, with a particular interest in the art patronage of the old regime in France. Kathleen Curran, whose research focuses on 19th-century German architecture, shares with students her knowledge of 19th- and 20th-century architecture and American decorative art. Jean Cadogan applies her expertise as a museum curator and scholar to teaching Medieval and Renaissance art, in addition to museum studies.

Courses in many other disciplines of special interest to Art History Majors -- History, Italian Studies, and Religion, to name a few, as well as closely related topics, such as Classics, American Studies, and International Studies, are also offered as part of the Art History curriculum. Examples are:

• Introduction to Classical Art and Archaeology
  
• The Gothic Age: Art of the 12th and 13th Centuries
  
• High Renaissance Art in Italy
  
• Seminar in Architectural History: The Country House
  
• Baroque Art in The South
  
• Seminar in 18th-Century Art: Madame Pompadour as a Patron of the Arts
  
• Seminar: The Origins of Romanticism
  
• 19th-Century Architecture
  
• 20th-Century Avant Garde in Painting and Sculpture
  
• History of Photography
  
• History of World Cinema
  
• Introduction to Asian Art
  
• Seminar in Style and Connoisseurship