Course detail
Art History – Medieval Art
FaVU-1DUUS-LAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course is a part of a lecture series which proceeds through the whole of BA studies. Students are chronologically acquainted with main eras, styles, trends, movements, and personalities, as well as with architectural, sculptural and artistic artefacts in the world and in the historical lands of the Czech Crown from the oldest times to the present. The course starts with pre-historic cave paintings and finishes with Italian Renaissance.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Secondary school knowledge of art-history.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Examination based on written test.
Lectures are optional.
Lectures are optional.
Aims
To acquaint students with demanding and specific issues of architecture and fine arts in their development from the pre-historic times.
To provide students with stylistic, social, icongraphic, technological and conceptual aspects of art.
To familiarize students with the frequent connections between old and modern art.
Basic insight in art-history based on chronology, as well as on formal, content and technological transformations. This insight should serve students as inspirational and orientational source for their own creative work.
To provide students with stylistic, social, icongraphic, technological and conceptual aspects of art.
To familiarize students with the frequent connections between old and modern art.
Basic insight in art-history based on chronology, as well as on formal, content and technological transformations. This insight should serve students as inspirational and orientational source for their own creative work.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
- compulsory prerequisite
Basic literature
Antonín Matějček, Dějepis umění I-IV, Praha 1922-1929
Jose Pijoan, Dějiny umění I-VI, Praha 1977-1980
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I-II, Praha 1984-1989
Kol.: Pozdně gotické umění v Čechách, Praha 1978.
Le Goff J.: Kultura středověké Evropy, Praha 1991.
Royt, Jan: Středověké malířství v Čechách. Praha 2002 (CS)
Jose Pijoan, Dějiny umění I-VI, Praha 1977-1980
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I-II, Praha 1984-1989
Kol.: Pozdně gotické umění v Čechách, Praha 1978.
Le Goff J.: Kultura středověké Evropy, Praha 1991.
Royt, Jan: Středověké malířství v Čechách. Praha 2002 (CS)
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Type of course unit
Lecture
52 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1) Final period of the Gothic style in the Czech lands.
2) Renaissance art in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries.
3)Developmental transformations of Renaissance illustrated on the most prominent personalities of the Italian architecture, sculpture and painting.
2) Renaissance art in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries.
3)Developmental transformations of Renaissance illustrated on the most prominent personalities of the Italian architecture, sculpture and painting.