DU2790 Icon. portrait, face

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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
Contact Person: prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Friday 10:50–12:25 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of this lecture is a complex reflexion about the representation of the human face in the medieval world.
Syllabus
  • 1. Antique portrait 2. Portraits of the IIIth century 3. Christians and the theory of the portrait 4. The portraits of the deads and the late antiquity 5. Portraits of saints. 6. Iconoclasme and portraits 7. The dematerialization of the face 8. "Icone" and ressemblance 9. Idealization and "reality" 10. Does the portrait exist?
Literature
  • Kurt Weitzmann, Kurt The icon holy images : six to fourteenth century, London 1978
  • Hans Belting, Bild und Kult : eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst, München 1990
  • Beat Brenk, The apse, the image and the icon: an historical perspective of the apse as a space for images, Wiesbaden 2010
  • Michele Bacci, “Vieux clichés et nouveaux mythes : Constantinople, les icônes et la Méditerranée”, Perspective, 2 (2012), pp. 347-364
  • Katherine Marsengill, Portraits and icons : between reality and spirituality in Byzantine art, Turnhout 2013
  • Herbert L. Kessler, Spiritual seeing : picturing God’s invisibility in medieval art, Philadelphia 2000
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture with images
Assessment methods
Written Exame
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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