DU2049 Seminar: Santini vs Dientzenhofer

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Johann Santini-Aichl and Christopher Dientzenhofer were of the leading architects of the Central European Baroque - in its radical branch. While the significance of the first of them is clearly recognized in the Art history, disputes about his authorship are breaking out around the second name from time to time. The classic manifestation of the earlier -Brno- contradiction (ie. Santini contra Dientzenhofer ) developed among pupils Vaclav Richter.
The lecture will connect the approaches - classically formal- analytical, methodological and function-receptive now, so that we can bring to the problem again, but with regard to new knowledge than ever before.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- be familar with the topic;
- identify, describe and compare past and current approaches to the topic;
- Identify and summarize the key issues of analysis and interpretation of historical architecture.
Syllabus
  • Introduction : Santini contra Dientzenhofer (overview of the problem).
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  • 1. Methodological excursion I: Heinrich Gerhard Franz.
  • 2. Guarino Guarini and the guarinism in northern Italy.
  • 3. Neoborrominismus and the Accademia di San Luc.
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  • 4. Methodological excursion II: Vaclav Richter and his pupils.
  • 5. Family Dientzenhofer and the beginnings of Christopher. Dientzenhofer
  • 6. The group of radical architecture in Bohemia.
  • 7. The echoes of radical architecture in Bohemia and Moravia.
  • 8. Johann Santini and Baroque Gothic.
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  • 9. Methodological excursion III: An architectural space and stereotomy.
  • 10. Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer Dientzenhofer.
  • 11. Johann Santini and -normal- Baroque?
  • 12. Late stereotomy: Santini and Moravia.
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  • Conclusion: Problems of practice and implementation of Baroque architecture.
Literature
  • HORYNA, Mojmír and Jaroslav KUČERA. Dientzenhoferové. 1. vyd. Praha: Akropolis, 1998, 161 s. ISBN 80-85770-68-7. info
  • HORYNA, Mojmír. Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova, 1998, 487 s. ISBN 8071846643. info
  • Barokní architektura v Čechách. Edited by Petr Macek - Richard Biegel - Jakub Bachtík, Photo by Vladimír Uher. Vydání první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015, 767 stran. ISBN 9788024627366. info
  • NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian. Genius loci : k fenomenologii architektury. Edited by Petr Kratochvíl, Translated by Pavel Halík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1994, 218 s. ISBN 8020702415. info
  • MÜLLER, Werner. Von Guarino Guarini bis Balthasar Neumann : zum Verständnis barocker Raumkunst. Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2002, 158 s. ISBN 393559044X. info
  • KROUPA, Jiří and Jan SEDLÁK. Zelená hora. Žďársko Jana Santiniho (The Work of Jan Santini in Zelená Hora and the Žďár Region). První. Praha: Foibos books, 2015, 111 pp. České dědictví UNESCO. ISBN 978-80-87073-85-8. info
Teaching methods
Seminar
Assessment methods
Seminar work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
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