This nine-month programme offers a unique combination of methodological depth and access to magnificent primary sources for students who wish to develop and extend their understanding of how visual styles at different times and in different places can be understood in relation to the aesthetic, intellectual and social facets of various cultures. The course will expose you to the ways in which the subjects of visual history are being redefined on a broad base to include a much wider range of artefacts and visual media, including images and objects produced in many contexts - ranging from the scientific to the popular. About a quarter of master's students proceed to doctoral work at Oxford or at other institutions. Other career destinations are as diverse as, but broadly in line with, undergraduate history of art career destinations: civil service, museum and gallery work, sometimes also banking and law.