The PPGHA promotes interdisciplinary studies in art history from a global perspective. The program embraces extremely diverse research projects from a spatio-temporal point of view, including, among others, studies on Greco-Roman antiquity; the relations between art and religion; the global Renaissance; art produced in Brazil between the 19th century and the present; the contemporary art system; Carnaval in its longue durée; the so-called “Afro-Brazilian art” and indigenous artistic production. These various fronts share a common premise: the need to decentralize and renew both the objects and the methods of the discipline, creating a multicentric perception of the world and the arts.

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The PPGHA intends to participate in a qualified way in the current debates on the historic-artistic discipline and, more specifically, on the perspective of the History of Global Art.