KLBcA26 Art of the Roman Principate

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023

The course is not taught in Spring 2023

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jan Jílek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Monika Zobková Koróniová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
general knowledge of Greek and Etruscan art and culture and of the Roman republic
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 13 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The lecture presents the main structure, theory and topics of the Roman Imperial art from the 1st to the 3rd century A. D. At the end of this course students should be able to understand evolution od roman art in main periods from the first century B. C. to the end of the 3rd century A. D., interpret main monuments and their iconography
Syllabus
  • - Rome and its arts during the principiate, influence of the Hellenistic style, Roman decorative arts arts and Greek legacy, Atticism
  • - Establishing Roman synthesis and its layering
  • - Personal and common architecture
  • - Augustan period and its significance for the state representative art formation (connection of Roman content and Greek form)
  • - Iulio-Claudian period, portrait, historical relief and painting
  • - Flavian art and architecture
  • - Traian classicism - the peak of Roman synthesis in portraiture and historical relief
  • - Hadrian classicism - esthetic romantism, beginnings of spirituality
  • - Antonian art - the increase of expressive elements
Literature
    required literature
  • ANDREAE, Bernard. Die römische Kunst : mit über 930 Illustrationen, davon ca. 180 Vierfarbigen auf Kunstdrucktafeln. Neubearb. und erw. Ausg. Freiburg: Herder, 1999, 640 s. ISBN 3451266814. info
  • BIANCHI BANDINELLI, R. Römische Kunst. München, 1975. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan - ONDŘEJOVÁ, Iva - TITZ, Pavel. Římské umění. Praha, 2015.
  • PELIKÁN, Oldřich. Dějiny antického umění. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1971, 143 s. info
  • RAMAGE, Nancy H. and Andrew RAMAGE. Roman art : Romulus to Constantine. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2015, 384 s. ISBN 9780205988952. info
  • ZANKER, Paul. Roman art. Translated by Henry Heitmann-Gordon. First published. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010, ix, 214. ISBN 9781606061015. info
    recommended literature
  • PARDYOVÁ, Marie. Římské portréty jako palimpsesty (Roman portraits as palimpsests). Ve službách archeologie. Brno: Archeologický ústav SAV Nitra, 2008, vol. 2, No 208, p. 257-264. ISSN 1802-5463. info
  • PARDYOVÁ, Marie. Protektivní prvky v antickém sochařství (Struts in the marble sculpture in antiquity). In Ve službách archeologie VII. 1st ed. Brno 2006: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost v Brně, 2006, p. 449-464. ISBN 80-7275-066-6. info
  • PARDYOVÁ, Marie. Změny sochařského konceptu a antické opravy sošných památek (Changes in Sculpture Conception and Ancient Repairs of Sculptures). In Ve službách archeologie VI. 1st ed. Brno: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost v Brně, 2005, p. 513-527, 13 pp. ISBN 80-7275-060-7. info
    not specified
  • KRAUS, Theodor and Bernard ANDREAE. Das Römische Weltreich. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1990, 335 s. ISBN 354951026. info
Teaching methods
lectures on the theory of roman art and analysis of most important works of arts and principal monuments, stylistic analysis
Assessment methods
Aims of the course and its fulfillment Requirements for the colloquium: - Basic orientation in the individual spheres of research in the branch - Knowledge of specialist literature, periodicals and outcomes of the work of significant researchers within the scope of the lecture and the assigned literature - Adequate participation in the work of the seminar
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Výuka tohoto předmětu proběhne v pěti blocích, a to vždy od 9.10 hodin (2. 3., 23. 3., 6. 4., 20. 4. a 11. 5.).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2025.
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