Passing the study plan

The final state examination will be divided in two main parts:
1) a discussion on a selection of readings which the students will have to prepare. The readings will be contextualized within their historiographical framework and critically analyzed by each examined student.
The goal of this part of the exam will be to show at the same time a panoramic understanding on the history of the field while being able to grasp scholarship as a historical phenomenon. The readings will be selected by the teachers and presented each year to the students.
2) students will have to show their mastering of the field in presenting three short papers on selected questions outside of their field of specialization. These topics will be chosen in discussion with the teachers of the M.A. Each of them will be from a different period and medium. They should, moreover, be different – in time and medium – from the subject of the M.A. thesis.
The goal of this second segment will be to assess the ability of the student to show that she/he can present an excellent research outside of her/his topic of specialization (M.A. thesis).

No specific requirements.

- The Visual Cultures of a Pilgrimage Church: the case of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
- Constructing Sacred Space through Images: Objects and Decorations of the Church of Santa Prassede in Rome
- Performative Art in Baroque Ceremonies and their Visualization in Seventeenth-Century Rome
- The Representation of Sciences in the Eighteenth-Century Czech Lands
- Constructing Sexual Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art: the Case of Berlin
- Changing Ecology of Art Institutions in XX and XXI Century: the Rise of the Biennial Phenomenon