DU1330k Subject Seminar: The Connoisseurship

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Prolegomena to the connoisseurship, one of the principal methods of the work of arthistorian in museum, in art collecting, in art trade and in the care of historical monuments.
Syllabus
  • Basic topics:
  • 1. Aims and limits of the connoisseurship?
  • 2. Historical and stylistic critic.
  • 3. Problems of attribition and datation of paintings.
  • 4. Genuine or false? (original, copy, replic, false, workshop work).
  • 5. History painting, portrait, landscape, still life, genre.
  • 6. Origin and history of art museums.
  • 7. Principles of museum work.
  • 8. "Old great men" of the connoisseurship (B. Berenson, A. Bredius, W. von Bode, Th. von Frimmel, M. J. Friedländer, V. Kramář and others.
Literature
  • Frimmel, Theodor von. Handbuch der Gemaeldekunde. Leipzig 1894 (1904).
  • Friedlaender, Max J. On the Art and Connoissership. London 1942.
  • Frimmel, Theodor von. Zur Methodik und Psychologie des Gemaeldebestimmungs. Muenchen 1905.
Assessment methods
Final written exam in a form of a test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: test a písemná práce na zadané téma
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2007.
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