FF:DU2650 Image, Memory and Death

DU2650 Image, Memory and Death in the Early Modern Age

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Timetable

Tue 13:20–14:55 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 course is concerned with the functions of images of the death in the Early Modern Age.

Syllabus

Topics:
- Images of Death: Ars moriendi; Memento mori; Vanitas; Danse Macabre
- Salvation: epitaphs; images of purgatory; role of religious brotherhoods and their patronage
- Ceremonials: funerals; ephemeral buildings; Castrum doloris
- Commemoration: sepulchral art, tombs and other memorial projects; forms, iconography, function; individual and collective representation
- New mentalities around 1800: modern graveyards; public memorials

Literature

Ku věčné památce : malované renesanční epitafy v českých zemích. Edited by Ondřej Jakubec. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2007, 175 s. ISBN 8085227888. info
ARIÈS, Philippe. Dějiny smrti. Translated by Danuše Navrátilová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2000, 358 s. ISBN 8072032860. info
LLEWELLYN, Nigel. The art of death : visual culture in the English death ritual, c. 1500-c. 1800. Repr. London: Reaktion Books, 1997, 160 s. ISBN 0948462167. info
PANOFSKY, Erwin. Tomb sculpture : four lectures on its changing aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini. Edited by H. W. Janson - Martin Warnke. London: Phaidon Press, 1992, 319 s. ISBN 0714828246. info

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

written essay

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught only once.