DU2375 Seminar: Baroque landscape as an art historical phenomenon

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
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 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to identify and interpret the various forms and transformations of the cultural landscape created during the Baroque period, which significantly reshaped the meaning and appearance of the landscape framework of pre-modern society. The seminar will focus on the reconstruction of selected, now only partially preserved, examples of Baroque cultural landscapes on the basis of hypothetical mental maps, outlines of the roads linking the sites under study and, in particular, analyses of individual monuments and art objects (small sacred architecture, sculptures and other works of art). In addition to the question of their effect and interactivity in the cultural landscape, attention will also be paid to the motivations of their founders and donors.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of the Baroque cultural landscape;
- identify and describe the main landscape tools of the 17th and 18th centuries;
- describe various motivations of initiators and builders, as well as other factors influencing the ways in which the Baroque cultural landscape was shaped;
- Analyse works of art and interpret their role and significance within the landscape.
Syllabus
  • Three sites will be selected for joint research, representing unique "laboratory" samples, unique in their state of preservation and also in the variability of early modern man's efforts to imprint his own ideas and vision of the world on the surrounding landscape. The selected sites will allow for the analysis of these efforts in different social settings (aristocracy, monastic institutions, cities/towns).
Literature
  • An introduction to human geography : the cultural landscape. Edited by James M. Rubenstein. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, 2005, 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 0131429434. info
  • CHODĚJOVSKÁ, Eva, Eva SEMOTANOVÁ and Robert ŠIMŮNEK. Historické krajiny Čech : Třeboňsko - Broumovsko - Praha. Praha: Historický ústav, 2015, 427 stran. ISBN 9788072862559. info
  • SVOBODA, František, Aleš HOMOLA, Petr CZAJKOWSKI, Martin MARKEL and Barbora PONEŠOVÁ. Krajina jako dílo : barokní krajinou od Mikulova po Znojmo. Vydání první. Brno: Národní památkový ústav, územní odborné pracoviště v Brně, 2016, 347 stran. ISBN 9788087697089. info
  • RYCHNOVÁ, Lucie. František Josef Šlik a česká barokní krajina : život šlechtice na východočeském venkově. Vydání první. V Praze: Scriptorium, 2020, 298 stran. ISBN 9788088013990. info
  • Fenomén zvaný Loggie : jičínský Valdštejnův letohrádek a jeho okolí pohledem současné vědy. Edited by Eva Chodějovská. Jičín: Občanské sdružení Lodžie, z.s., 2019, 245 stran. ISBN 9788027072552. info
  • JAKUBEC, Ondřej and Ondřej ZATLOUKAL. Barokní Krajina Olomouce (Country-side of Olomouc in Baroque). In Olomoucké baroko. Výtvarná kultura let 1620-1780. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2010, p. 65-74. ISBN 978-80-87149-39-3. info
Teaching methods
field trips, class discussion, group projects
Assessment methods
group project, presentation
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
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