Free Arts & Entertainment Courses

The course will be organized around various attempts to reinterpret the Judeo/Christian God, and to determine in what sense, if at all, such a God is still a living God.

This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting.

A survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting in the Western world from the Italian Renaissance to the present.

UC Davis Professor John Owens teaches this introduction to the design and analysis of the architecture of computer graphics systems.

A survey of European architecture, sculpture, and painting from Late Antiquity to the end of the Gothic period.

Wide-ranging survey introducing the key aspects of modern art and criticism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Earth Art, and Conceptual Art.

This is a series of free public lectures investigating the portrayal of Christian themes in art from the first Christians through to the modern day.

An introduction to the development of music, with an emphasis on art music of the Western hemisphere. Topics include elements of music, instruments and ensembles, form, styles and periods, including major composers and work.

From the Caves to Romanticism, take a journey through centuries of art and learn about the role of art in culture and the place of the artist in society.

Art Historian Dr. Vida Hull reviews the Italian Renaissance...