FF:DU1220 Masters of Baroque Painting

DU1220 The Great Masters of the European Baroque Painting

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2001

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc. (lecturer)

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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

European painting of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Syllabus

Introduction into European painting of the 17th and 18th centuries. Themes: major specialisations of the baroque painting, themes and concepts of the baroque painting (frescos, altar and easel paintings, preliminary works, ephmer decorations, concettismo, theory of decorum, ilusionismus ) social backround (educations and social position of the painters, painter and patron of arts); introduction into the oeuvre of Caravaggio, brothers Carracci, Andrea Pozzo, Nicolas Poussin, Diego Velásquez, P. P. Rubens, Rembrandt, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Karel Škréta, Petr Brandl and others.

Literature

Bauer, Hermann. Barock. Kunst einer Epoche. Berlin 1992.
Hubala, Erich (ed.). Die Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts. (Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, 9). Berlin 1970.
Keller, Harald (ed.). Die Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, 10). Berlin 1971.
Toman, Rolf (ed.), Baroko. Architektura, plastika, malířství. Praha 1999.
KRSEK, Ivo. Umění baroka na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Edited by Zdeněk Kudělka, Photo by Prokop Paul. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1996, 739 s. ISBN 8020005404. info
BLAŽÍČEK, Oldřich J. Umění baroku v Čechách. Praha: Obelisk, 1971, 193 stran. URL info
NEUMANN, Jaromír. Český barok. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1969, 236 s. info
BLAŽÍČEK, Oldřich J., Mirjam BOHATCOVÁ, Beket BUKOVINSKÁ, Eliška FUČÍKOVÁ, Ivo KOŘÁN, Jarmila KRČÁLOVÁ, Ivo KRSEK, Zdeněk KUDĚLKA, Jiřina MEDKOVÁ, Věra NAŇKOVÁ, Emanuel POCHE, Pavel PREISS, Miloš STEHLÍK, Michal ŠRONĚK and Jarmila VACKOVÁ. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1989, Strana 390. ISBN 8020000690. info
Lorenz, Hellmut (ed.). Barock. Geschichte der bildenden Künste in Österreich IV. München-London-New York 1999.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Přednáška (kredit B) je ukončena zkouškou (písemný test).

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003.