In full continuity with the tradition of teaching History of Art at Sapienza University of Rome, the Doctorate in History of Art intends to offer specific methodological tools that guarantee an activity aimed at achieving the highest scientific level of academic research. In order to include figurative and architectural events in a broader and more articulated cultural landscape, doctoral students will be encouraged to address the individual topics of study from an interdisciplinary perspective. The research path aims, therefore, to stimulate in future PhDs the ability to conduct historical-philological, iconographic-iconological and archaeological-structural investigations, as well as to deal with the critical reading and interpretation of historical sources and documents, from the Latin Middle Ages and Byzantium, through modernity, to the Contemporary Age. Four different curricula are available: - History of Medieval Art - History of Modern Art - History of Contemporary Art - History of Art Criticism. Candidates will be especially requested to focus their attention on the following topics: - Contacts between Eastern and Western artistic cultures; - Survivals, revivals and reuse of classical art; - Patrons and patronage; - Collectors, collections and art market; - Iconographic systems and iconological models; - Social history of the arts and artists; - Continuity of artistic expression from traditional branches (architecture, painting, sculpture) to the new phenomena (installation, performance, video projection, site-specific work); - Influence of new media on the contemporary art's language and development; - Global Art History; - History and development of museums; - History and analysis of art literature and art criticism. Professors from Sapienza Università di Roma and other Italian and European universities participate to the Phd Program, together with directors and and specialists from italian and international institutes.