DU1256 Medevial Art 4.-15. Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Ivan Foletti (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
Timetable
each even Friday 7:30–10:45 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
The lecture is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the medieval artistic culture. Based on the traditional periodization, will focus on European art from III. to XV. century AD. The course will be embedded in a chronological approach, but the themes around which it develops, are broader in nature, ranging from traditional iconographic and stylistic study of social issues through art history, to the analysis of anthropological and sociological nature. Emphasis will be on asset among other medieval works of art versatility in an attempt to break the cliches about the superiority of sculpture and painting. (Special attention will be given the most valuable example of medieval engineering, goldsmith, but also a carving of ivory or wood carvings). We will focus also on the interaction of different techniques in medieval vekých projects. The aim of this lecture is to familiarize students with the first insight into the medieval creation and ask fundamental questions about the methodology field. Ride is pochopnení complexity vizálního medieval world.
Syllabus
  • - Introduction: methodological questions and art of catacombs. - Early Christian art after 312: pagan traditions and the Christian world (Rome, Ravenna, Naples, Jerusalem, Constantinople, ...). - From the portrait to the icon: figurative work from VI to VIII century. - Classic, anti-classical and "perennial Hellenism": figurative work from VI to VIII century. - Looking East: Byzantium but also Islam. - Time of Charlemagne: intellectuals creations? (IX.-X. century) - Ottonian art, west and east. (X.-XI. century) - "Rebirth" of monumental sculpture, 1050-1150. - Painting the High Middle Ages (1050-1200). - France, Germany and the "Gothic": History and Myth (1144-1270). - Nicola and Giovanni Pisano: two generations and two worlds. - Giotto and his school. - During the reign of Father of the Nation: the art of XIV. century in Bohemia. - Gentile da Fabriano, "International Gothic" and the end of the Middle Ages ....
Literature
    required literature
  • Středověké malířství v Čechách. Edited by Jan Royt. Praha: Karolinum, 2002, 163 s. ISBN 8024602652. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Bild und Kult : eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. 2., unveränderte Aufl. München: C.H.Beck, 1991, 700 s. ISBN 3406343678. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Das Bild und sein Publikum im Mittelalter : Form und Funktion früher Bildtafeln der Passion. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1981, 316 s. ISBN 3786113076. info
    recommended literature
  • - Richard Krautheimer, “Introduction to an ‘Iconography of medieval architecture’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 5 (1942), pp. 1-33 [Francouzský překlad, Paris 1993].
  • - Jean-Pierre Caillet [et al.], L'art du Moyen-Age : Occident, Byzance, Islam, Paris 1995.
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture, theoretical preparation, output: oral test of the general sorrow of the Middle Ages.
Assessment methods
oral test of the general sorrow of the Middle Ages.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
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