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Art History & Appreciation

Beauty, truth, and the human condition

$25 per student · one-time · classroom $49 + $20/student

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Written by Troy Williams · Kellogg MBA · McKinsey · Ameriprise Financial

Art History includes 60 days.

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What your student will be able to do

Students learn to see structure, intention, and the moral weight of beauty (or its absence).
Students keep a looking journal — training attention the way a historian trains it on a text.

An 8-week course from the first cave painters to the contemporary gallery — beauty as a divine attribute, and the loss of transcendence. Jubal and Bezalel open the course. Gothic cathedrals follow in week 3.

The course treats art as theology and craft — not decoration. Students learn to see structure, intention, and the moral weight of beauty (or its absence).

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8-week survey

01The First ArtistsPrehistoric, ancient, and biblical art — when making images began.
02Early Christian and ByzantineWhen faith became visual (100–1400).
03Gothic CathedralsMedieval vision — theology in stone and light.
04The RenaissanceThe explosion of beauty (1400–1550).
05Baroque and Dutch Golden AgeLight, shadow, and the sacred in the ordinary.
06Romanticism and Van GoghEmotion, impression, and modern vision.
07Modern ArtThe break (1900–1970) — form, abstraction, meaning.
08Contemporary ArtBeauty, meaning, and your calling.

Students keep a looking journal — training attention the way a historian trains it on a text.

Who teaches

Written by Troy Williams · Kellogg MBA · McKinsey · Ameriprise Financial

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Pricing

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$25 per student

Classroom

$49 base + $20 / student

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Art History includes 60 days.

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Nothing auto-renews. $25 per student, one-time. Art History includes 60 days.