DU1902 Reflections and New Perspectives on Visual Cultures in the Early Modern Period

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/2. 8 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination), k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
No pre-requisites are required.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The objective of the course is to provide an insight into various visual cultures of the early modern Europe (15th/16th-18th centuries) and into its different aspects. The related aim is to focus on various possible models of interpretation of the visual art of this period within the context of contemporary history of art.
Learning outcomes
- understand early modern period as an era with specific visual language/languages; - open a new insight on the function of art/images in history and culture - aquire knowledge of modes of art-historical interpretation;
Syllabus
  • 1. Early modern period - definition
  • 2. Historiographical outline: The terms Renaissance and Baroque
  • 3. Idea of an artist, its social position and status
  • 4. The Patron and society: the setting of an artwork
  • 5. Artistic genres and tasks of the early modern period
  • 6. Economy and Bussiness of Art
  • 7. Religion and the function of art
  • 8. Italy and the others: Circulation and migration of artists
  • 9. Death, memory and the arts
  • 10. Visual arts and the communication function of artworks
Literature
  • Circulations in the global history of art. Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann - Catherine Dossin - Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, x, 247. ISBN 9781472454560. info
  • 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
  • Rethinking the baroque. Edited by Helen Hills. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, xv, 243. ISBN 9780754666851. info
  • WELCH, Evelyn S. Shopping in the Renaissance : consumer cultures in Italy 1400-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, ix, 403. ISBN 0300107528. info
  • Time and place : the geohistory of art. Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann - Elizabeth Pilliod. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, xii, 224. ISBN 0754608735. info
  • KAUFMANN, Thomas DaCosta. Toward a geography of art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, xiv, 490. ISBN 0226133125. info
  • KAUFMANN, Thomas DaCosta. Court, cloister, and city : the art and culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 576 s. ISBN 0226427307. info
  • ALPERS, Svetlana. The art of describing : Dutch art in the seventeenth century. London: Penguin Books, 1983, xxvii, 273. ISBN 0140228616. info
  • HASKELL, Francis. Patrons and painters : a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the Baroque. Rev. and enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982, xviii, 474. ISBN 0300025408. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion, analysis of texts
Assessment methods
Oral examination related to a topic selected by a student and discussed with the teacher
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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