DU1400 Byzantine Iconoclasm

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Alessandro Taddei (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
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
The main concern of the course will be the re-evaluation of the period as a momentous one: once we put aside the well-known and obsolete common places iconoclasm still nowadays brings with itself, it should be considered as a pivotal historical interval. The course aims to explain how iconoclasm, for many respects, represented a "workshop" for the development of the middle-Byzantine artistic language.
Syllabus
  • Byzantine art in the iconoclastic period as a political and socio-cultural phenomenon. The chronological range of the course is intended to be wide enough to bridge over the whole period of the so-called Byzantine iconoclastic period, conventionally AD 726 to 843. The religious and political background of the iconoclastic crisis will be analysed in-depth, together with the outcomes it had on the artistic production and practices.
Literature
  • Brubaker, Leslie: Inventing Byzantine iconoclasm. London 2012
  • Kitzinger, Ernst: Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century. Cambridge 1977
  • Barber, Charles: Figure and likeness: on the limits of representation in Byzantine iconoclasm. Princeton 2002.
  • H. Belting: Bild und Kult. Eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. München 1990.
  • Brubaker, Leslie: Byzantium in the iconoclast era c. 680 - 85 : a history. Cambridge 2011.
  • Bettetini, Maria: Contro le immagini, le radici dell’iconoclastia. Roma 2006.
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture, theoretical preparation
Assessment methods
short composition
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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