Department of General Art History . ... Ancient Oriental Art and the Art of Ancient Central Asia and Transcaucasian Countries . ... Medieval Art in Western and Eastern Europe . ... Art of the Renaissance . Western European Art of the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries . Western European Art of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries . Western Art in the Twentieth Century; Modern Art and Artistic Culture; the Interactions between European and Russian Art in the Twentieth Century . ...