Art History staff at the University of Plymouth contribute to a research environment that was rated 100% ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the national assessment of UK research (REF2014). Our research specialisms stretch from the late medieval to modern periods and encompass expertise in the major art historical periods, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to Realism and Modernism. Our strengths lie in meta-painting in Western visual culture; political iconography in Renaissance Italy; the reception of Renaissance artists from 1750 to the present; the history and practice of art historical writing in Europe; international mural painting and public art of the 20th century; the visual arts and cultural politics of the interwar period; Viennese modernism; modernist exhibition cultures; the entanglement of modernism and medicine; the medical humanities.
Art History research
In the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
