DU2062 Seminar: Michelangelo - Bernini - Canova: Continuity, Rivalry and Innovation in Early Modern Rome

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:40 K32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 8 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/8, only registered: 0/8, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/8
Course objectives
The seminar is focused on an exploration of the creative process of three great sculptors of early modern Rome. It is conceived as a discussion of different art-historical narratives in the field of research on authorship, originality, invention, imitation etc. Questions of reception, invention, competition and rivalry, and, more broadly, notions of change and continuity will also be addressed in the context of exploring the creative processes of the selected sculptors. The discussion should reveal new and unexpected approaches to interpreting the work of famous artists that are less often considered in standard discussions of the period.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of the creative practice of the early modern sculptor;
- describe the various factors that influenced the final form of a sculptural work;
- apply the most recent methodological approaches in art historical research.
Syllabus
  • Operation of workshops, organization of work, art collections
  • Training of sculptors: workshops, guilds, academies
  • Materials, their meaning, value, symbolism
  • Technology and innovation
  • Preparatory work: drawing and plastic sketches, models
  • Sculptural practice and its reflection in contemporary theory
Literature
  • MANGONE, Carolina. Bernini's Michelangelo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020, ix, 277. ISBN 9780300247732. info
  • Canova e l'antico. Edited by Giuseppe Pavanello. Milano: Electa, 2019, 355 stran. ISBN 9788891825216. info
  • BINDMAN, David. Warm flesh, cold marble : Canova, Thorvaldsen and their critics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, viii, 219. ISBN 9780300197891. info
  • DICKERSON, C. D., Anthony SIGEL and Ian WARDROPPER. Bernini : sculpting in clay. Edited by Andrea Bacchi - Tomaso Montanari - Steven F. Ostrow. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012, xvi, 416. ISBN 9780300185003. info
  • Art without an authorVasari's Lives and Michelangelo's death. Edited by Marco Ruffini. 1st ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011, xii, 257 p. ISBN 9780823234561. info
  • Bernini's biographies : critical essays. Edited by Maarten Delbeke - Evonne Anita Levy - Steven F. Ostrow. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, xviii, 419. ISBN 9780271029023. info
  • BAKER, Malcolm. Figured in marble : the making and viewing of eighteenth-century sculpture. 1st pub. by V&A publications. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000, 192 s. ISBN 0892366060. info
  • MONTAGU, Jennifer. Roman baroque sculpture : the industry of art. 2nd print. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, xi, 244. ISBN 0300053665. info
  • BALDINUCCI, Filippo. Filippo Baldinuccis Vita des Gio. Lorenzo Bernini. Translated by Alois Riegl. Wien: Anton Schroll & Co., 1912, iv, 284. info
Teaching methods
Individual and group research projects; class discussions; special attention will be devoted to first-hand engagement with works of art (a four-day field trip to Rome)
Assessment methods
Two individual/group projects, homework, active participation in discussions
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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