DU2065 Seminar: Ani - the Capital of Armenians, Georgians and Seljuk Turks

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Friday 16:00–19:40 K31
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: 7/8, only registered: 0/8, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/8
Course objectives
The purpose of this seminar is a comprehensive knowledge-accompanied by a study tour-of the medieval capital of medieval Armenia. The city's surroundings will also be studied.
Learning outcomes
After passing the course the student will be able to navigate the history of Armenian architecture. He/she will also know the essential historical data for this region. Finally, he/she will also reflect on the relations with the surrounding regions between East and West.
Syllabus
  • The founding of the city
  • The city walls
  • The citadel
  • The cathedral
  • The church of St. George
  • The monastery of the virgins
  • Horomos
  • Khtkhong
  • Mren
Literature
  • PALLADINO, Adrien. From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye : Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894–1929). In Palladino, Adrien; Campini, Ruben; Moraschi, Annalisa; Foletti, Ivan. Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p. 96-115. Convivium Supplementum, 11. ISBN 978-80-280-0306-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135378. Brepols web info
  • FOLETTI, Ivan, Adrien PALLADINO, Ruben CAMPINI, Klára DOLEŽALOVÁ and Annalisa MORASCHI. The othering gaze : imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism in studies on medieval art in the southern Caucasus (1801-1991). Edited by Beatrice Spampinato - Margarita Khakhanova. 1st edition. Rome: Viella, 2023, 245 stran. ISBN 9788028004460. info
  • PALLADINO, Adrien. From the Revue des Etudes Armeniennes to Sirarpie der Nersessian: "French" perspectives on Armenian Art. In Kickoff Meeting of the international project “Cultural Interactions in the Medieval Sub-Caucasian Region: Historiographical and Art-Historical Perspectives”, 11. 3. 2021, Fribourg. 2021. URL info
  • FOLETTI, Ivan and Pavel RAKITIN. Armenian Art in the Soviet Perception. In Armenian art : Critical history and new perspective, 21.-22.2.2019, Venezia. 2019. info
  • MARANCI, Christina. The art of Armenia : an introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, xii, 252. ISBN 9780190269005. info
  • MARANCI, Christina. Vigilant powers : three churches of early medieval Armenia. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015, 281 stran. ISBN 9782503549002. info
  • DONABÉDIAN, Patrick. L'âge d'or de l'architecture arménienne : VIIe siècle. Marseille: Parenthèses, 2008, 331 pp. ISBN 9782863641729. info
  • MARANCI, Christina. Medieval Armenian architecture : constructions of race and nation. Leuven: Peeters, 2001, viii, 282. ISBN 9042909390. info
  • THIERRY DE CRUSSOL, Jean-Michel. Les arts Arméniens. Edited by Nicole Thierry - Patrick Donabédian. Paris: Éditions Mazenod, 1987, 623 stran. ISBN 2850880175. info
  • DER NERSESSIAN, Sirarpie. Armenia and the Byzantine empire : a brief study of Armenian art and civilization. Edited by Henri Grégoire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1945, xxi, 148. info
Teaching methods
Interactive seminar with presentation and written seminar.
Assessment methods
Oral and written presentation
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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