Art history classes set

A series of art history classes spanning the ancient Mediterranean to contemporary Carnegie International exhibitions will be offered by Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland, beginning March 8. The classes are required for people who plan to enter the museum’s docent program but are also open to the public.

“A Crash Course: Art History From Ancient to Now,” a 12-week series, will be held from 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Wednesdays and repeated from 6-8 p.m. Thursdays. The course fee is $216, members $168, students $100. Enrollment in any of the four-week sessions is $80, $64 and $40.

“The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Mediterranean” will be taught by Carrie Weaver, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a classical archaeologist who has excavated in Pompeii and Sicily. Her specialty is the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on funerary art and architecture, burial practices and analysis of human bone.

“Late Medieval Art Through France and the Rococo Style” will be taught by Saskia Beranek, a visiting assistant professor at Pitt and a specialist in 17th-century Dutch art, architecture and garden design. She has done extensive research on Amalia van Solms, the princess of Orange, one of the most significant Dutch female patrons of her time.

“The Impressionists through the Art of Our Time” will be taught by Clarisse Fava-Piz, a doctoral candidate in art history at Pitt whose interests include artistic exchanges, the history of the art market and connoisseurship in the 19th century.

To register for classes or to learn about the docent program, visit http:// cmoa.org/event/crashcourse