专业描述

When the National Research Council, in its most recent report, rated Columbia as the foremost institution in the nation for art history scholarship, it again recognized a legacy of excellence dating back more than seven decades. Meyer Schapiro earned Columbia's first Ph.D. in the field in 1929 with a dissertation that was to revolutionize the study of Romanesque art. In the years since, scholars here have shaped nearly every area of study in the field: pre-Columbian to postmodern, style analysis to critical theory.