FF:DU1711 Medieval art:Konst.-Giotto I - Course Information

DU1711 Seminar: Medieval art: from Konstantin to Giotto I.

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Zuzana Frantová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Zuzana Frantová, Ph.D.
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

Timetable

each odd Wednesday 12:00–15:40 K31, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 16/15, only registered: 1/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15

Course objectives

The seminar will be focused on a thorough knowledge of key artworks from the Middle Ages in terms on the Moravian region. Representatives of all disciplines of visual art and architecture will be included in a wide range from Romanesque art to the early Renaissance. Emphasis will be placed on the knowledge of the material component of the work, its content and iconographic aspects, its original wide socio-historical context, its second life, and the complete scholarly discourse associated with it.

Learning outcomes

The participant will acquire the basic methods of art historical work: heuristics, analysis, description, work with older and recent scholarly literature, interpretation. Based on his own studies, he also gains primary orientation in dominant methodological approaches from the beginning of the history of art itself to the present. He / she will be able to present this knowledge coherent.

Syllabus

• 1) The Rotunda in Znojmo 2) The Bishop's Palace in Olomouc 3) The Basilica in Třebíč 4) Moravian Madonnas (Old Brno, Veveří, St. Thomas Church) 5) Moravian Pietàs (2x Jihlava, St. Thomas Church, Pietà of Canon Křivák) 6) The Madonna of Šternberk 7) The Rajhrad altarpiece 8) The Znojmo altarpiece 9) Christ on the Mount of Olives from St. Maurice Church in Olomouc. 10) The Boskovice Bible, Olomouc Legal Book by Václav of JIhlava 11) Moravian monstrances (Rajhrad, Olomouc, Velká Bíteš, Hnanice, Jevíčko) 12) The Altarpiece in Adamov

Literature

• Anežka Merhautová – Dušan Třeštík: Románské umění v Čechách a na Moravě, 1983 Od gotiky k renesanci I-IV, 1999-2002

Teaching methods

The seminar will be conducted in a dialogical way. The base will be made by a presentation of an individual student paper, which will be corrected, supplemented and evaluated by the supervisor of the seminar. Emphasis will be put on the active involvement of all participants in the discussion. If possible, the seminar will take place in front of the original works of art (Brno, Znojmo, Adamov).

Assessment methods

An active participation will be required to gain credit - attendance and a presentation of a paper. The evaluation of the paper will focus especially on the students' ability to verbalise the visual experience on the medieval artwork on the orientation in scholarly discourse and generally on the cultivation of the branch terminology.

Language of instruction

Czech

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