Two linked courses involving the conservation science and art history of 17th-century Dutch painting are described. The two courses have been taught both entirely on the Washington and Lee University campus and, most recently, as study-abroad courses involving W&L and the Center for European Studies, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands. The highly interdisciplinary courses are intense, but presuppose that students have no background in either science or art history. The courses have successfully drawn students from the sciences and non-sciences into the same classroom with productive outcomes. The strengths and limitations of the approaches taken are discussed and the key resources from the courses are cited.