DU1378 Dutch Painting of the 17th and 18th Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Andrea Steckerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Wednesday 10:50–14:05 K31
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
Course objectives
This course will study the Dutch painting of the 17th-18th centuries and focused on the art collections in the Czech Republic. The aim is to provide practical information and exercise to students who will learn how to examine the paintings and doing archive research to have the closer contact with originals. Throughout the course the students will learn about all genres of the Dutch painting and theirs main representatives. The attention will be also devoted to technique and technology of the painting, iconography, history of collecting as well as to different interpretation approaches.
Syllabus
  • Introduction: an overview of literature and actual research on Dutch painting, tools (digital archives, online databases etc.), general outline of collections in Czech Republic with Dutch painting. Background of the Dutch Painting: history, sociology, religion, culture and economy - all in the context with art; roots of the Dutch 17th century painting (late mannerism). Pre-rembrandtists generation, Utrecht caravaggism, Dutch classicism. History and Portrait Painting (Rembrandt and his pupils and followers, specifics in history painting in European context, Portraits – representation of burghers, group portraits) Genre Painting (main characteristic of the category, its place in the hierarchy of genres, iconography, specialists). Landscape and Architecture Painting (the genesis of landscape painting in the 17th century, marine panting, Dutch Italianates; Painting of Architecture – manuals and treatises on perspective, process of realization). Still Life Painting (main principles: space, composition, light, volumes..., iconography, subcategory and representatives). Technique and Technology of Painting, teaching and workshop practice (Rembrandt and his studio), copying of paintings (expertise of painting – connoisseurship). Art Market (function, economic aspects, prices...), commissioners and collectors. History of Collecting the Dutch Painting in Bohemia and Moravia in 17th-18th centuries. Study Trips: the mentioned topics above will be also discussed in different collections (museums, galleries, castles...) as well we in the conservation studios (Národní galerie v Praze, Moravská galerie v Brně, Muzeum Olomouc etc.).
Literature
  • ŠEVČÍK, Anja Kerstin, Stefan BARTILLA and Hana SEIFERTOVÁ. National Gallery in Prague. Dutch Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Illustrated Summary Catalogue. 2012th ed. Praha: Národní galerie v Praze, 2013, 640 pp. ISBN 978-80-7035-493-3. info
  • MERRIAM, Susan. Seventeenth-century Flemish garland paintings : still life, vision, and the devotional image. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, x, 173. ISBN 9781409403050. info
  • SEELIG, Gero. Die holländische Genremalerei in Schwerin : Bestandskatalog Staatliches Museum Schwerin. Edited by Kerstin Binzer - Ellis Dullaart. Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2010, 296 s. ISBN 9783865686145. info
  • BARTILLA, Stefan. Flámské a holandské malířství od 16. do raného 18. století : průvodce sbírkou Alšovy jihočeské galerie v Hluboké nad Vltavou. Hluboká nad Vltavou: Alšova jihočeská galerie v Hluboké nad Vltavou, 2009, 153 s. ISBN 9788086952222. info
  • SCHWARTZ, Gary. Das Rembrandt Buch : Leben und Werk eines Genies. Translated by Rosali Bontjes van Beek - Saskia Bontjes van Beek. München: C.H. Beck, 2006, 383 s. ISBN 3406543693. info
  • NEUMEISTER, Mirjam. Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800. Edited by Christiane Haeseler. Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2005, 568 s. ISBN 3937251367. info
  • BLANKERT, Albert. Selected writings on Dutch painting : Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer and others. Edited by John Walsh. Zwolle: Waanders, 2004, 352 s. ISBN 9040089329. info
  • SCHNEIDER, Norbert. Still life : still life painting in the early modern period. Köln: Taschen, 1999, 215 s. ISBN 3822865230. info
  • SEIFERTOVÁ, Hana and Anja K. ŠEVČÍK. --et in Hollandia ego-- : holandské malířství 17. století a raného 18. století ze sbírek Národní galerie v Praze. Praha: Národní galerie, 1998, 129 s. ISBN 8070351675. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Barocke Bilderlust. Holländische und flämische Gemälde der ehemaligen Sammlung Nostitz aus der Prager Nationalgalerie (Baroque Inclinations in Painting. Dutch and Flemish Painting in the Former Nostitz Collection in the National Gallery in Prague.). Praha: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 1994, 171 pp. ISBN 3-922279-32-5. info
Teaching methods (in Czech)
přednášky, referáty
Assessment methods
colloqium, written essay dealing with main topics discused in the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
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