DU2337 The Other Renaissance

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to re-consider the Renaissance as not only iconic artistic style but rather as variety of styles or aspects that are related to this artistic and cvisual cultures or cultural phenomen in Europe and beyond. The parallel aspect of the course focuses on model of interpretaion of the visual art of this period
Learning outcomes
- understand early modern period as an era with specific visual language; - aquire knowledge of modes of art-historical interpretation; - learn basic historical and arthistorical facts related to this period
Syllabus
  • Renaissance – historiographical survey Non-Italian Renaissance Renaissance and the Middle Ages/Gothic Renaissance and Religion Renaissance and death/memory Patrons of art in the Renaissance Art of the Renaissance in domestic interiors Myth of the Renaissance artist-genius Theory and opraxis of the Renaissance architecture Art as commodity The secoond life of the Renaissance in pop-culture
Literature
  • BURKE, Peter. Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016, xii, 271. ISBN 9789633860878. info
  • A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art. Edited by Babette Bohn - James M. Saslow. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, xvi, 630 p. ISBN 9781118391501. info
  • Rethinking the High Renaissance : the culture of the visual arts in early sixteenth-century Rome. Edited by Jill Burke. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, xvi, 386. ISBN 9781409425588. info
  • Renaissance theory. Edited by James Elkins - Robert Williams. New York: Routledge, 2008, x, 550 p. ISBN 0203929861. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion, analysis of texts
Assessment methods
presentation of a paper, final colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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